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Amman - Al-Rai Newspaper - Head of the Labor House Center for Studies, Hamada Abu Najma, said that the Jordanian-Qatari agreement on the necessity of increasing employment opportunities for Jordanians in the State of Qatar, enhancing cooperation in the fields of work, and activating the agreement signed between them at the beginning of the year 2020...

Arab 48 - Two workers were killed after falling from a high height in a construction workshop in Tel Aviv, today, Wednesday. The two victims of the work accident were Ghazi Abu Sbitan and Ahmed Ziyad Al-Sayyad, from the town of Al-Tur, near the city of Jerusalem.

Jordan News - Two years after the platform for applying for jobs granted by the State of Qatar to Jordan stopped, the Qatari Minister of Labor restored the hopes of Jordanian youth to resume activating the platform and employ thousands of them.

Amman Net - On June 1, 2021, Madin Al-Zubaidi became without work, after he was informed of the termination of his services from a textile and spinning factory in the Jordanian governorate of Irbid - 91.6 kilometers away from Amman. According to him, there were personal disputes between him and his supervisor at the factory that led to his expulsion, especially after he was unable to communicate with the Chinese factory manager to complain because the translator was prevented from clarifying his words.

Amman - Al-Ghad - Last week, I had the opportunity to review the Ministry of Labor’s response to a question addressed to it by the Chamber of Industry about the government’s opinion regarding the decision to suspend working hours on the Thursday before last, the twenty-seventh of last January, and whether the suspension meant disruption or no?!.

Hayat News - Director of the Labor House Center, Hamada Abu Najma, said that pension salaries should not be less than the declared poverty line.

Amman - Al-Ghad - While the Jordanian Farmers Association organized a sit-in yesterday in front of Parliament to demand the abolition of social security for non-Jordanian workers, governmental and civil authorities considered that this demand “is not consistent with the agricultural workers’ system that was approved last year.”

Ammon - “To return to my home with two dinars is better than unemployment and people’s need, God forbid.”

Jordanian Labor Observatory - Razan Al-Momani - Work in the agricultural sector is often seasonal, meaning that during the winter months male and female workers in the sector are negatively affected and thousands of them remain without work, especially during the frost waves that affect winter crops.

Amman (Petra) - Razan Al-Mubaideen - Workers in some professions are exposed to respiratory diseases related to the nature of their work, more than others who breathe air free of pollutants and the remains of manufactured chemicals.

Amman - Al-Ghad - A specialized report criticized what it considered “the government’s exclusivity in developing proposals to amend the Social Security Law, and the lack or absence of the voice of workers, employers, and civil society.”

Amman - Al-Ghad - The Tripartite Committee for Labor Affairs decided to postpone the implementation of a previous decision issued by it, requiring an increase in the minimum wage for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, equivalent to the inflation rate for the previous year, issued by the official authorities, to be implemented at the beginning of next year and for a period of three years. According to the Director of the Labor Relations Directorate in the Ministry of Labor, Adnan Al-Dahamsheh, while trade unionists and labor experts expressed reservations about this postponement.

Roya Channel - Director of the Workers’ House Center, Hamada Abu Najma, said that there must be a distinction between the nominal wage, “the material value of the salary,” and the real name of the wage, “the purchasing power of the wage.”

Amman - Al-Ghad - Experts in the field of labor policies confirmed that the weak demand for vocational training is due to the fact that the information system for the labor market does not serve the training process, and that the training programs do not take into account the needs of the labor market, not to mention the lack of funding for training programs and weak coordination with the private sector.

Al-Rai Newspaper - Despite the government taking the reasons into account through its plans, unemployment rates witnessed a noticeable increase during the third quarter of last year to record 23.2 percent.

Amman (Petra) Bushra Nairoukh - His Majesty King Abdullah II’s insistence and insistence on combating unemployment systematically according to well-thought-out plans and diligent follow-up, in response to achieving the requirements of local growth, was remarkably clear.

Al Rai Newspaper - While experts praised the efforts of the Ministry of Labor through its employment programs to create new job opportunities in an effort to reduce unemployment rates, they called on the Ministry to choose new paths for employment programs targeting all educational levels.

Jordan News - The Jordanian Society for Science and Culture held a symposium on higher education in Jordan, in which the former Minister of Higher Education, Dr. Mohieddin Tawq, spoke in the presence of many members of the society, academics, and specialists in university affairs.

Amman - Al-Ghad - While the Social Security Corporation attributes the decline in the number of insured people who benefited from unemployment allowances for the year 2021 to the establishments’ benefiting from the corporation’s programs emanating from defense orders, which led to the preservation of workers in the labor market...

Arab Labor Organization - The Arab Labor Organization believes in the importance of having an effective and integrated system for labor inspection and occupational health and safety as a basis and guarantee for the fair implementation of the provisions contained in Arab labor standards....

International Truth - Head of the Jordanian Workers' House Center, Hamada Abu Najma, stressed the necessity of encouraging investment in Jordan, attracting investors, and establishing partnerships with the private sector.

Al-Rai Newspaper - Insurance experts considered allowing establishments benefiting from the Estidama program to reduce old-age insurance contributions by 50% for all or some of their workers to be a neglect of workers’ interests and voices and a marginalization of their rights.