Lebanon is going through an economic crisis where the national currency is losing its value: this unfortunately led to high inflation rate, many suggestions were proposed and discussed and finally the parliament decided to adjust the Lebanese laborers' salaries in a way that maintains their standards of living; taking into consideration changes in prices as recorded by the Customer Price Index (CPI).The decision was to give employees: * 4 points Merit Increase. Cost-of-living adjustments (COLA). Merit Bonus. Base Pay. The reverse of a company growing is 2 points known as Downsizing Degrowing Layoff Ungrowing