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The Jordanian Labor Watch has warned of the negative impacts of the new bylaw to reduce contributions to old-age, disability, and death insurance for private sector workers, which was approved by the government last week. In a press release issued today, Sunday, the Labor Watch said the bylaw would allow small and medium-sized private sector establishments to reduce their contributions ...

The Jordan Labor Watch has called on the government to stop forcing or encouraging its employees into early retirement, highlighting the negative effects of this policy on the labor market and the sustainability of the social security system. In a statement issued today, Thursday, the Labor Watch explained that the recent expansion of early retirement, especially through the Greater Amman ...

The Jordanian Labor Watch has called on the government to implement measures parallel to the recently published increase in medical doctors’ fees. These measures would enable workers, particularly in the private sector with average and low incomes, to afford these increases in healthcare costs. In a statement released today, the Labor Watch emphasized that if the government has increased doctors’ ...

The Phenix Center for Economic and Information Studies concluded a training program for small and medium-sized agricultural holders on enhancing working conditions in the agricultural sector as part of the Empowering Work Pathways for Agricultural Workers in Jordan project. The training, which lasted for six consecutive days, aimed to raise awareness of decent work standards and the impact of applying ...

The Phenix Center for Economic and Information Studies concluded a training course for civil society organizations on advocacy and lobbying methods. The course, which ran for three consecutive days in Irbid Governorate, aimed to build the capacities of civil society organizations on the concept of advocacy and its role in activating advocacy processes to advocate for civil society issues. The ...

The Jordanian Labor Watch has called for addressing poverty by reconsidering the “unfair” economic policies that have been applied and are still applied in Jordan for decades in order to reduce the phenomenon of child labor in Jordan. The Jordanian Labor Watch said that all efforts to curb the phenomenon of child labor in Jordan have focused only on detecting ...

The Phenix Center for Economic and Information Studies, in partnership with Better Work Jordan, concluded a training program for human resources managers and employees in Jordanian garment factories on the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the garment sector. The two-day training aimed to provide technical and institutional guidance to HR managers and employees to promote the inclusion of persons ...

Experts have called for the need to develop appropriate and effective insurance tools to cover workers working through digital platforms in social security and enjoy all insurance provided by the General Organization for Social Security (GOSS). The experts said that unregulated employment in Jordan is constantly expanding in light of the inadequacy of the social protection system to include it ...

The number of labor protests carried out by Jordanian workers last year amounted to 89 protests, a decrease of 45 percent from the year 2022, in which the number of labor protests reached 162. According to the annual monitoring report on labor protests in Jordan, issued by the Jordanian Labor Watch of the Phenix Center for Economic and Information Studies, ...

Jordan has been included in the initial list of countries that do not comply with International Labor Organization (ILO) conventions and do not respect some of its standards related to decent work. According to the list issued by the ILO’s Committee on the Application of Standards, which was reviewed by the Jordanian Labor Watch, the convention to which Jordan is ...