The Syrian Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor has terminated the government decisions that granted employees affiliated with the ministry a three-month paid leave.
In the text of the decision issued yesterday, Sunday, April 13, which Enab Baladi reviewed and was reported by local media, it states that the work is concluded with the decisions that included granting staff listed in those decisions a special paid leave for three months.
All entities affiliated with the ministry are required to prepare directives for their employees according to official direct orders and to send them to the Administrative Development Directorate of the ministry in accordance with regulations, while the employees who have previously been issued decisions to cut their leave prior to the issuance date of this decision will remain in their current workplaces.
The decision signed by the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Hind Qabawat, attributed this step to the provisions of the Basic Law for Employees of the State, Law No. 50 of 2004, and Presidential Decision No. “9” of 2025, in addition to a series of decisions from the ministry itself, and based on the requirements of the public interest.
Since the beginning of this year, the new Syrian government has initiated the restructuring and organization of state institutions, and government officials have stated that hundreds of thousands of employees do not actually work, alongside others who are “ghost employees” receiving salaries without actual work.
Based on these premises, the government has distanced an undisclosed number of employees in state institutions through decisions for dismissal, suspensions, and long-term paid or unpaid leave, in addition to refraining from renewing the contracts of temporary contractors, leading to a state of anxiety among public sector employees across Syrian provinces.
The Minister of Finance in the interim Damascus government, Mohammad Abazeid, stated to SANA that only 900,000 out of 1.3 million government employees actually work, while there are 400,000 employees who are considered “ghost employees.” Meanwhile, the Minister of Administrative Development in the same government, Mohammad al-Sakaf, mentioned that the public sector does not need more than 550,000 to 600,000 workers.
According to Minister Abazeid, the government was surprised to find that the number of employees registered in public entities is much larger than the actual numbers on the ground. In addition to discrepancies in financial lists, there are phantom names of individuals receiving salaries from home without officially registering in their departments, “resulting from the previous regime’s policy of favoritism and nepotism.”
Ministry of Social Affairs ends paid leave for its employees Enab Baladi.
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