AMMAN – Minister of Labor
Nayef Istitieh said on Sunday that the ministry will hire about 30,000 Jordanian
citizens in 2022 as part of programs set in place to appoint and support local
labor, rather that guest laborers, noting that the ministry will launch the National
Employment Program at the end of January 2022, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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Istitieh said during the
Parliamentary Finance Committee's discussion of the draft law on the general
budget and the budgets of government units for 2022 that "the duration of
the program is six months, and the average salary is JD150”.
He added that the
Ministry of Labor
is working to digitize all its services by the end of next March, pointing out
that seven services have been already digitized.
He said that the Ministry of
Labor's budget was reduced by half a million compared to 2020, having become JD9.089
million.
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