Officials from the Jordan University of Science and Technology held a protest rally last Tuesday in front of the university's presidency to call for improvements in their working conditions.
In this context, the Jordanian Labor Observatory reported that the 260 civil servants called for parallel accounting for gross salary, for the dissolution of the parallel committee, for the formation of a committee of neutral officials to revise the sub-committees contracts and rewards recently decided.
The protesters also claimed a special bonus, the equality of the last levy dedicated to the parallel bonus, 20 dinars, while it was set at 100 dinars, over five years, during the term of the former president of the University, the application of the leave system claimed by civil servants (30 days a year and that the weekend is not counted) and the revision of the system of additional work.
Officials also explained that they can no longer be limited to King Abdullah University Hospital for their care and have called for an improvement of the health insurance service reminding them that they are sometimes forced to wait for months to able to get appointments. The protesters also called for the creation of a pilot school and a crèche for their children, the cessation of crony appointments in administrative posts, the suspension of abusive transfers of directors and civil servants, the reactivation the civil servants club in accordance with its internal regulations and the reimbursement (360 dinars) of all civil servants whose salaries were deducted from 20 dinars for 18 months.
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