The Jordanian Labor Monitor director, Ahmed Awad, expected the government’s failure to raise the current minimum wage due to its lack of seriousness in tackling the issue.
Awad told “Ahdath Al-Youm” news website that the preliminary information indicates that employers from the industrial sector refused to raise the minimum wage after holding two meetings of the tripartite committee consisting of workers, employers and the ministry.
According to the same source, the governmental position is still unclear, indicating that the committee held two meetings at the beginning of which it determined a study on the state of the labor market, and the second meeting resulted in no data or agreement, indicating that the postponement of the frequent meetings more than two weeks ago is not in the interest of raising the minimum.
The second meeting of the Tripartite Commission was held on January 14, where it only considered the data, statistics and studies prepared by the Ministry of Labor.
These materials were based on the data available from the first meeting.
Deputies and civil society institutions demanded the necessity of raising the minimum wage, especially after raising the salaries of public sector employees, military and retired civilians, since the beginning of this year.
The tripartite committee’s decision is effective in the official gazette as long a consensus by all parties is reached.
The year 2017 witnessed the last raise made to the minimum wage was when the tripartite committee decided to make it 220 dinars instead of 190 dinars.
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