General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions demanded last Wednesday that the previously put to place Defence order should be ceased.
In a press statement, president of the union, Mazen Al-Ma’aytah, announced that this matter was necessary during the past period and since the beginning of the crisis and was a cover to protect both workers and employers.
However, since many employers in establishments, companies and institutions have arbitrarily used the options granted to them by the Defence Order 6, especially with regard to wages and financial earnings of workers, it became harmful to these workers and constituted a detriment to their rights.
Al-Ma’aytah also emphasized that the Defence order is no longer in need after the resumption of regular economic activity, the lifting of the ban on economic sectors and the possibility of resuming their activities in a regular manner and returning to the application of the labor law.
Al-Ma’aytah also stressed in this context “the urgent need to implement the labor law’s stipulations as well as activate the legal tools and guarantees that the worker must be provided with to be proteced from potential abuse of his rights.”
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