The Jordanian Labor Observatory recorded a number of violations committed against workers in a number of factories within the industrial city of Al-Hassan, Sahab and Al-Dhalil.
The observatory revealed on its website that 8 factories in the industrial city of Al-Hassan did not pay the wages for the months of January, February and March, meaning that they did not adhere to paying their workers’ wages before the Corona pandemic outbreak in the Kingdom, but they also took advantage of the pandemic to violate the workers’ dues.
One of the factories where twenty workers work there, did not have access to food and water, although the factory was still operating. while another factory owner negotiated the discount of the official leave, which has a duration of 14 days from the workers’ salaries. Permits of workers in another factory have expired and the respective factory management told them to keep the news to themselves.
A factory located in “Sahab” did not commit to paying the March salary for workers, but at the same time, it gave 10 dinars to workers, in order to buy phone cards. The factory forced workers to work secretly, without observing the health conditions that guarantee their protection.
In one of the factories in “Al-Zulail”, more than 800 workers, who are Sri Lankan, Bengal and Indian workers, did not receive the full month’s wages in March, and the meals provided to them were not sufficient.
What raises suspicion here is that workers do not know if the employer has obtained official approval to suspend work, which will lead to workers receiving only half of their salaries, according to the two defence orders.
In case the factory management decides to stop work, the administration will not count the suspension period as part of the worker’s contract. The observatory asked: “Will the suspension period be counted as part of the contract period?”
With regard to the deduction of “30%" of workers’ wages and their free will according to Defence Order 6, the Observatory asked in this regard: “Does deduction of this percentage (30%) of workers’ wages require written approval from them?”
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