A statement issued by the Jordan Labor Watch, affiliated with the Phoenix Centre for Economic and Information Studies, labelled as “unfair” the amendments made to cancelling the early retirement option for new subscribers without inserting new regulations related to salaries, dismissal from work and unemployment insurance.
The Observatory and the Center considered that the cancellation of early retirement requires the application of a battery of parallel procedures and policies to ensure social protections and the minimum threshold for a dignified life for workers and their families. Procedures and policies that should regulate compensatory measures for 'work disruption' so that it becomes 'compensation for unemployment' and the precise criteria that must be applied to the Labor Code to combat dismissals (abusive or not) against workers before they reach the age of mandatory retirement.
The statement also called for implementing parallel policies instead of abolishing early retirement for new subscribers to the social security, suggesting the reduction of the value of social security subscriptions to all.
The statement also called on the government to offer facilities and incentives for new investments through other tools that do not affect the rights of employees, such as granting them lower taxes on production inputs and reducing bank interests on loans granted to these new investments. In their joint statement, the Center and the Observatory pointed out that some of the amendments in question allow the use of contribution money for other purposes where the Social Security Institution uses some of this money for Maternity leave (maternity and child protection program), while Article 72 of the Labor Code provides that the funding of maternity leave is not the responsibility of the General Institution of social Security.
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