After COVID-19, Jordan resorted to the Defence Law No. 13 of 1992 to manage the affairs of citizens, protect workers, and preserve their health, safety, and source of income, which cost 3 billion dinars. The measures include Central Bank facilities and social security support programmes. These measures, however, decreased the repercussions of COVID-19 on the country’s economy.
The Jordanian government approved, two months ago, its economic program 2021-2023 for the post-pandemic reforms. The program devoted 480 million dinars for economic recovery.
The program is based on major axes, including improving the business and investment environment, enhancing competitiveness and employment, and prioritize certain economic sectors, mainly tourism, information technology, agriculture, and industry.
It is worth noting that the defence orders prohibited the termination of workers’ services except in exceptional cases. The text that is still in force since the issuance of the Defence Order No. 6. According to the order, any employer who terminates the services of any of their employees for reasons other than the permitted ones are subject to a fine and imprisonment.
The government, also, enabled employers to benefit from the economic protection programs that it announced with the Central Bank and the Social Security Corporation in return for keeping their workers.
The Ministry of Labour created an electronic platform called “Himaya” (meaning protection) for labour complaints, most of which are related to delayed salaries and termination of services. Responses to the complaints has been recorded up to 90%.
It is worth noting that the number of workers whose services have been terminated is 10,192 workers. The ministry has returned about 6,635 men and women to their jobs through the defence law and released the salaries of another 347,250.
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