calls for payment of dues, permanent contracts in Hasakah- Deir ez-Zor

Amid calls for the relevant government authorities to intervene and resolve outstanding cases, workers and municipal employees staged protests in several towns in the Deir ez-Zor countryside, demanding the payment of overdue financial dues.

The protests took place in the towns of Al-Jarzi Al-Sharqi, Abu Hardoub, Al-Jarzi Al-Gharbi, Suwaidan, and Darnaj. Meanwhile, employees of the Jadid Bakara Municipality issued a statement calling for their outstanding dues to be addressed.

The protesters stressed that the amounts owed to them constitute acquired rights, noting that delays in their payment are worsening their living conditions. They called on the relevant authorities to intervene urgently, pay the outstanding dues, and put an end to what they described as their ongoing suffering.

In Al-Hasakah Governorate, former oil-sector workers also staged a protest. Workers whose contracts had been terminated blocked the road in front of oil tanker trucks on the international road at the Tarbeh S junction, east of Qamishli, demanding their reinstatement and the conversion of their contracts into permanent positions within the oil companies operating in the region.

The protesters said they had worked at the Ouda oil field and numbered around 1,000 workers. They stressed that they had continued working since 2012 before their contracts were terminated recently.

The workers added that they had previously received promises from Syrian Petroleum Company Director Youssef Al-Qablawi and Al-Hasakah Deputy Governor Ahmad Al-Hilali to integrate them into the workforce of one of the oil companies operating in the region, either Al-Jazeera Company or the American company operating in the oil sector.

The protesters said they had begun working for the American company for three months before their contracts were terminated again without an explanation. They considered this a violation of the promises they had received regarding permanent employment and continued work.

Several areas in Al-Hasakah Governorate and the Aleppo countryside also witnessed community events attended by thousands of people, calling for the Kurdish language not to be restricted and for Kurdish to be officially adopted as a language of education in the country.