Insurance Information No. (407)
When more than (300) thousand workers remain outside the insurance umbrella..!!!
Evading social security coverage has been and continues to be a phenomenon that must be acknowledged. Not a day goes by without me hearing a complaint from here or there about workers evading the provisions of the Social Security Law. The problem increases whenever we talk about small and micro enterprises that employ between 1 and 20 workers..!
A few days ago, a friend contacted me to inform me about a shop that manufactures and sells sweets in the city of Zarqa that has been employing about (20) workers for three years without including them in the social security, which is considered a blatant violation of one of their most important legal labor rights, and an evasion of compliance with the provisions of the Social Security Law..!
Here I wonder: Where are the Social Security Corporation's personnel when it comes to such facilities? Why have the Corporation's field inspection operations and personnel been weakened and replaced with what are said to be modern mechanisms through electronic linkage and coordination with relevant official bodies? Has this approach been fully successful, so that we should be diminishing the importance and role of field inspections of facilities?
If relying solely on electronic linkage was sufficient, we would not have found a facility that has employed twenty workers and employees for three years without committing to covering them with social security..!
I remember that during my work at the Social Security Corporation, I used to go around in the very early morning hours to many small shops and kiosks and ask their owners and workers whether they were registered with the Social Security Corporation or not... and I was not surprised that the majority of them were not registered. According to one of the Social Security Corporation’s studies, approximately 16% of those working in the organized sectors (about 300,000 workers) are not covered by the Social Security Corporation due to evasion of their coverage by their employers, which raises the level of legal responsibility on all parties, especially the Social Security Corporation..!
This is a shared responsibility between the Social Security Institution, employers, and workers, but it is a greater responsibility for the Social Security Institution and one of its most important duties..!