The Jordanian Labour Observatory of “Phenicia” Center for Economic Studies called for the organization of the labour market in Jordan to put an end to the chaos in the market and to develop national policies to create a comprehensive human rights framework for migrant workers that guarantees equality, justice and having decent life.
The Observatory stressed that the legislative system lacks a comprehensive legal framework that recognizes full equality between local workers and migrants in the field of human rights, although there are texts that recognize equality in form, but many of the exceptions contained in some regulations and decisions lead to discrimination against migrant workers and promote inequality. It constitutes an entry point for the wide range of violations, including the minimum wage decision applied to only Jordanians, the deprivation of domestic workers from access to social protection and the deprivation of social security to Syrian workers in the construction sector.
The observatory revealed in a study issued in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert German organization that the Jordanian labour market includes a large number of migrant workers estimated at one million and 100 thousand of which 350 thousand workers are registered in the Ministry of Labour.
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