In a report, the Jordanian Labor Monitor raised questions about the fate of the public transport sector, in light of the recent decisions taken to prevent COVID19.
The Observatory highlighted that more than 84.000 workers in the public transport sector are living in dire conditions and are facing the threat of losing their livelihood as well as the threat of the pandemic.
The head of the Independent Syndicate of Public Taxi Drivers Suleiman Al-Syriani assured to the “Labor Monitor” that: “for public drivers, if they worked they could eat, and if they did not work they could not eat, these people suffer frm two dangers, the risk of hunger and the risk of a pandemic.”
Al-Syriani also said that: “All segments of Jordanian society have a steady source of income, while public transport drivers have no fixed source, and for this reason we asked the owners of vehicles to look with an eye of compassion and mercy toward drivers.”
According to statistics, the number of public drivers is 84.000 drivers, 17.500 yellow taxis, 11.000 services (public service), 10.000 buses, and others working in foreign travel, transport and transit (TRANSIT).
Al-Syriani did not hide his concern from the results of the recent necessary government decisions on public drivers, he explained: “We have been asking the government for 12 years t to amend the labor law, as our problem is with the Ministry of Labor, which denied this segment of the people (public drivers) access to the torso of social protection benefits.”
The Union of Taxi Owners demanded easier measures for drivers regarding social security (what the driver pays to the vehicle owner daily) and the necessity to delay loan deductions.
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