BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's cabinet referred a draft law on a new public wage scale to parliament early on Friday, bowing to popular pressure but endangering efforts to control a runaway budget deficit.
Finance Minister Mohammed Safadi said the draft law, which would raise the minimum wage 35 percent and cost around $1.2 billion (790.2 million pounds) a year, would be "economically devastating" for Lebanon.
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