Minister of Labor, Nidal Faisal Al-Batayneh, generalized, to the Jordan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the heads of trade unions regarding their sectors and in accordance with the Labor Law and occupational health and safety, instructions in order to provide a safe and sound work environment, and to achieve the national efforts to sustain the non-proliferation of the Corona virus.
Other Preventive and precautionary measures were made to protect workers from infection, in partnership with the private sector in spreading the awareness culture regarding occupational health and safety.
The Minister called on the employers as well as registered and affiliated members of the Jordan Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the trade unions to take the necessary measures to protect workers in the workplace from the risk of injury or transmission of infection in accordance with the provisions of the Jordanian Labor Law No. 8 of 1996 and its amendments by adhering to the travel instructions issued by the competent authorities, and in case of the presence of a worker coming from travel, he/she would be prohibited from entering work until a review is made with the Ministry of Health.
Strict administrative measures must be established to prevent gatherings of workers in large numbers, especially during breaks and meals time.
Necessary measures need to be taken to stop the work of fingerprint devices to prove the permanence and replace them with other appropriate mechanisms, and activate the role of the occupational safety and health personnel and establishments at the facilities including supervisors, doctors, nurses and safety committees in workplaces.
Employers were also stressed on the need to adhere to directing their workers to clean surfaces, tools and equipment used in the work, and to take the necessary measures to sterilize the workplace and the workers’ housing, and to provide sterilization products in the workplace.
The Ministry of Labor called upon private sector institutions to expand the scope of remote work as much as possible and this is up to them, for the categories of workers whose nature of their work allows it and within the usual hours of work, in which case the employers have to adopt forms for this purpose in which the duration of the remote work contract includes the beginning of the contract and its end as well as the exceptional reasons for converting the contract into a remote work contract while ensuring the right of the worker to request a permanent reinstatement of his work provided that the worker’s wage is calculated based on the actual work hour value and the employee’s remuneration fee may not be less
than the usual worker’s wage and that is by mutual consent and agreement between the employer and the worker in all circumstances.
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