Ali Merei chief of oil worker union in Damascus stressed on the necessity of oil companies to depend on national expertise by
Termination of foreign experts contracts that cost a lot of money.

Merie said in the annual conference of oil worker union in Damascus on 2/2/2009 that ban travel that impose on oil worker did not contribute to the strengthening of national experiences and to reduce the wages of foreign experts, but on the contrary, has increased the remuneration of foreign experts did not decrease as a result of the failure to promote the replacement of these experiences of national expertise to back down from calling the decision to stop traveling.

He added: that is the case for the corporate contract does not apply to public companies and the need to put an end to stop the screening of the trainees.

Training

Trade union committee in Syrian petroleum and gas companies stressed as well the need to develop a training plan and rehabilitation of the Department staff in the light that all the terms of service contracts with oil companies, provides for the allocation of 50 thousand dollars annually from each of the company for the training of cadres in specialized courses, however, that a large portion of these amounts have not been used for rehabilitation and training, note that these amounts are not reimbursable expenses, as the amount of suspended more than 800 thousand dollars during the years 2007, 2008.

 
It also noted the interventions to the suffering of workers in the oil sector and the difficulties encountered in the work of companies, whether in terms of qualified personnel and the need to implement judicial decisions, and gained the degree of deterministic jurisdiction to award compensation, chemists and technicians to ensure the diet and work to support the issuance of oil legislation.

Leakage cadres

The report of the economic support to the group of general propositions and the difficulties of the various actors in the oil sector to the absence of specific legislation in addition to the oil industry expert and the leakage of technical staff and the trainee should be given training and rehabilitation issues of internal and external requirements and the need to secure work for the company and work on the implementation of judicial decisions of labor and employment created links to the overall employment of workers, including seasonal issues and follow-up of seasonal workers in addition to the fuel company to work on a numerical table of the oil companies.

 
The report pointed to the need for follow-up to the conditions of health and occupational safety, environmental groups and grants working in the fields of food and diet technicians and giving workers a meal in the company and preventive geological and created a system of micro-medicine.
The report summarized the difficulties of the National Center for earthquakes and the length of the tender procedures and contracts.

Difficulties

It also suggests that interventions in the Syrian Company for Gas Distribution the need to expedite the remaining work and the operation of a maintenance workshop and secure cylinders of new tanks for the transport of gas instead of the old tanks and the modernization of transport fleet and to accelerate the creation and mobilization of new units in the province of Damascus countryside and the need to work to stabilize and raise the proportion of workers assigned to work overtime and to 100% incentives.

 
It also noted the interventions with regard to strengthening the role of the public sector need to re-fuel stations and is the confiscation of private sector investment to the Department’s work on fuel, and fuel stations in the urban centers of the province of Damascus countryside and work on a legislative system of compensation for the workers of official holidays in addition to the amendment of the Labor Code, particularly With regard to the evaluation of the performance of employees.

Tishreen Newspaper