AMMAN — Minister of Labor and
Minister of Industry, Trade, and Supply Yousef Al-Shamali said that “the minimum wage will
not be raised,” Khaberni reported.
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The minimum wage, Shamali said, was recently raised
from JD220 to JD260; it is usually reviewed every five years by a committee
representing the labor, commercial, and industrial sectors, together with the
Ministry of Labor.
Shamali said that inflation in Jordan stands at 4
percent, which is one of the best figures in the world.
The minister said that those who are not subscribed
to the social security or receive a salary of less than JD260 per month could
file a complaint.
Meanwhile, Jordan counted 435,000 unemployed people,
half of whom without Tawjihi (general secondary certificate examination)
certificate at the end of last year, Shamali said on Tuesday.
In a related development, the Director of the
Center for Economic Studies, Ahmed Awad, said that one of the main reasons for the
high unemployment among young men and women lies in the lack of job
opportunities to absorb the newcomers to the market.
He stated that efforts should go towards supporting
the economy in a holistic manner so that it can provide more job opportunities.
“Unfortunately, some of the government-run
employment projects in the 10 years ago were mere propaganda, were not proven
to be successful,” Awad said.
He pointed out that employment programs undertaken
by successive governments were a waste of time, and have proven to be a
failure, and did not contribute to reducing unemployment.
“One government claimed that it employed 30,000
Jordanians through an employment program, and it turned out that these people
did not know anything about such program,” he said.
He called for stimulating economic sectors that
employ the largest possible number of workers, and linking tax and customs
incentives to the number of job opportunities that are created.
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