The Minister of Labor, Nidal Al-Batayneh, issued, yesterday, Monday, instructions related to the procedures and measures necessary to organize flexible “remote” work No. (3) for the year 2020, issued in accordance with the provisions of Paragraph (C) of the third item of Defense Order No. 6 of 2020.
According to these instructions, the employer in any of the institutions and establishments authorized to work, or the institutions and establishments covered by the decision to disable, and not authorized to work may assign any of his employees to work remotely, entirely or partially if the business interest requires so.
The employer is not obligated to amend the internal system for the purpose of assigning any of the employees to work “remotely” entirely or partially.
The employer is also obliged to provide the Ministry of Labor upon its request with a monthly statement that includes the names of the employees remotely, the nature of their work, the hours of work, the length of the contract and the amount of wages according to what is registered with the Social Security Corporation.
The instructions indicated that employees who worked remotely in the institutions and establishments authorized to work by the authorities deserves their full usual wages for the period from March 18, 2020 March 31, 2020, and an additional fee during that period, if he was assigned to work overtime,extra wages related to official holidays are excluded from this.
Whereas employees who work remotely in institutions and establishments who are concerned by the decision should be granted their full usual wage for the period from March 18, 2020 to March 31, 2020.
The instructions indicated that employees who work remotely in any of the establishments authorized to work by authorities covered by the decision to disable work and not authorized to work deserve their full usual remuneration; if they have worked remotely for full 8 hours per day, and their remuneration would be according to actual working hours, and not less than the specified minimum.
If employees have partly worked remotely or at least 50% of the value of their usual wages, whichever is higher, provided that their wages are not less than the minimum wage, and an additional wage if they have worked remotely, entirely or partially, and assigned to overtime work, with the exception of that additional fee related to the work of official holidays.
In addition to the fact that employees may remotely waive part of their wages, up to a maximum of 30% of their usual wage, in the same way as workers fully operating in the workplace, and this waiver is considered in full with the free will
of workers if they do not file a complaint with the Ministry of Labor within 7 days from the date the employer made such decision.
The instructions stipulated that the employer is obligated to pay the remuneration of workers who would be working remotely within a period not exceeding 7 days from the date of their entitlement.
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