Jordan – The Ministry of Labour has deported 250 migrant workers on the pretext of regulating the labour market and replacing Jordanian workers with expatriates, however experts confirm that this is “a violation of the rights of migrant workers as the issuance of work permit falls on the employer and not on worker. The Ministry confirmed, that a search campaign began earlier this week and resulted in deporting 250 migrant workers” and said that the campaign comes in conjunction with the implementation of the national program of employment, which aims to gradually replace the local labour instead of the expatriate, and creation of new jobs. The Directorate of Labour and Employment has also been instructed to apply the ratios set out in the Council of Ministers decision to reduce the percentage of expatriate workers in the industrial, agricultural and tourism sectors by 25% per annum until 2021, and reducing the percentage of expatriate in the construction and fuel sector by 10% annually until the same date. However, a report issued by Tamkeen legal aid and human rights confirmed that the number of deported migrant workers is increasing significantly, in 2013 witnessed 2613 cases, and rose to 6467 in 2014, and in 2015 was 5735, and last year 8,139 workers were deported”. The report, issued last month under the title Assessment of Human Trafficking in Jordan (gaps between legislation and practice), said most of the cases were related to non-renewal of residency and work permit noting that the employer should obtain work permits for workers, and when the employer fail to renew the permit the worker gets punished and may get deported”.
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