Guidelines for Jordanian-only professions published in Official Gazette

AMMAN — Guidelines have been issued in the Official Gazette identifying professions and handicrafts that non-Jordanians are banned from practicing based on Article 12 of the investment environment bylaw for 2023.اضافة اعلان

According to the new guidelines, non-Jordanians of both sexes are prohibited from working in barbershops; upholstery and furniture renovation workshops, dessert, pastry, or ice cream production facilities for direct sale, carpentry, blacksmithing, aluminum fabrication, and metal processing industries.

Non-Jordanians are also prohibited from working in embroidery and traditional sewing workshops, goldsmiths and jewelry workshops, pure water bottling facilities, and nut roasting and packaging facilities for the purpose of direct sale.

Under the guidelines, non-Jordanians are not permitted to work in the laundry or plastics fields or for photography companies, clothes dyeing facilities, and auto mechanic workshops.

The instructions exclude establishments that practice crafts and handicrafts with more than 10 workers registered with the Social Security Corporation.


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