The Jordanian Labor Observatory called for providing support and assistance to the families of workers on a daily and seasonal basis, as these actions were stopped as a result of the necessary preventive measures taken by the Jordanian government to face the rapid spread of the emerging corona virus to maintain the health and lives of citizens and residents in Jordan.
A statement issued by the Observatory on Wednesday indicated that there are tens of thousands of workers who depend in their lives and provide their daily livelihood as well as their families’ through daily and seasonal work. They are called “unorganized workers”, and they do not receive their salaries and wages regularly like other workers in an organized manner, and they are distributed among the transportation sectors (drivers), construction, agriculture, shops, etc.
The statement pointed out that “the sources of livelihood of a large part of these people were cut off at the present time, which requires taking protective measures for them and their families through social campaigns from residents of their residential neighborhoods where people are acquainted to eachother, and from the societies that operate in these areas."
The Labor Observatory called on the government, through the National Aid Fund, the Social Security Corporation, the private sector, and professional unions, to assume their social responsibilities in providing the daily necessities of these families to ensure a decent life for them in these exceptional circumstances.
The Observatory also stressed that this exceptional crisis calls for quick thinking after its completion to reconsider social security policies, so that it covers all workers in Jordan regardless of the nature of their work, and reduce the number of workers in an unorganized manner to low levels, where their percentage in Jordan currently is 48 % of the workforce.
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