AMMAN — The
Social Security Corporation (SSC) has retracted its decision to raise the minimum wage in the
Kingdom, keeping it at JD260 instead of JD271, Al-Mamlaka TV reported.
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This comes a day after the corporation
issued a statement saying that it would adopt a decision issued by the
Tripartite Committee for Labor Affairs to index the statutory minimum wage to inflation
and increase the minimum wage for the years 2023–2025.
The SSC had said on Monday that the minimum
wage of JD260 would be adjusted based on the inflation rate for the first 11
months of 2022, which amounted to 4.22 percent. Based on this rate, it had
decided to increase the wage by JD11 for 2023.
However, the
SSC’s Deputy Director-General and
Media Department Director Yasser Akroush told Al-Mamlaka on Tuesday that the
corporation "will abide by the minimum wage subject to social security
deduction at JD260”, not the previously announced JD271.
Akroush added that the corporation "is
committed to the government's decisions, in the case that it decides to raise
the minimum wage".
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