AMMAN — The
Tripartite Committee for Labor Affairs in 2020 decided to raise the minimum wage for Jordanian workers up to
JD260 for each upcoming year due to the inflation rate. But the Coronavirus
pandemic delayed the government’s decision, forcing it to apply it in the
sectors most effected, Amman Net reported.
اضافة اعلان
Earlier this year, questions were again raised about
the possibility of linking the minimum wage to inflation figures, but Director
of the ministry’s Labor Relations Adnan Al-Dahmsheh determined that the
tripartite Committee decided to postpone the decision until 2023.
Last Wednesday, the
Department of Statistics
announced inflation rates for the first quarter of the year. It said the
overall consumer price index “inflation” in the first third of the year rose by
2.62 percent to 104.58, compared with 101.91 recorded in the corresponding
period in 2021.
As a result, the
General Federation of Jordanian Trade Union has requested a meeting of the tripartite committee charged with
the consideration of wages, with the intention of demanding that it be
implemented soon, especially with the incoming higher prices and clear
inflation costs for citizens.
Mazen Al-Mayytah, Head of
Jordan Labor Watch said
there were fears of lapse, non-application, and reluctance with the intention
of employers under the pretext of “defense orders” and economic conditions in
the Jordanian market, which reflect negatively on citizens and families.
He explained that leaving the matter to employers
without a meeting or notification from the ministry will create many
irregularities in its application, especially since the circumstances of the
decision issued in 2020 differ from the current economic conditions, such as
the coronavirus pandemic and the Russian-Ukrainian war.
On the introduction of a new minimum wage figure, he
said that is unlikely at the present time. He noted that he would only
emphasize the inflation figure and that a meeting should be requested to review
the minimum wage and demand that it be raised at the beginning of next year.
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