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Hala News - Ismail Obada - The “insane” rise in global food and energy prices has caused a significant rise in the prices of basic and non-essential goods in Jordan during the current period, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan.

Amman - Al-Ghad - On the eighth of this month, the Prime Minister issued an official statement requiring the suspension of official departments, municipalities, joint services councils, and the Greater Amman Municipality tomorrow in order to “enable employees to exercise their electoral right,” which is the day that was set as the voting date for the elections of the governorate and municipal councils and the secretariat. According to the report, which left a big question: “What about employees in the private sector?!” Don’t they also have the right to be able to exercise their electoral right?!”

Khabarni - Alaa Al-Balasma, former Secretary-General of the Ministry of Labor, Hamada Abu Najma, said that the decision to suspend ministries and public institutions for next Tuesday includes workers in the private sector.

Al-Bayan newspaper - Voices are rising demanding the suspension of the Defense Law in Jordan, given that its justifications no longer exist, and that since the beginning of this month the Kingdom has entered the stage of mitigation measures against the backdrop of the Corona epidemic, as Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh recently confirmed that the government has reached the stage of “folding the file.” Corona crisis.

Roya Channel - Law professor Dr. Jihad Al-Jarrah said that every legal rule is built on a reason to achieve the goal. Al-Jarrah added in the episode of Nabd Al-Balad on Roya Channel, on Sunday, that the activation of the Defense Law came due to the presence of the Corona pandemic in Jordan.

Amman Net - The head of the Labor House Center, lawyer Hamada Abu Najma, said that agricultural workers face many violations, whether Jordanian or non-Jordanian, due to the absence of legal protection and the absence of application of the labor law and social security.

Joe 24 - 75,982 children in Jordan, or 1.9% of all children between the ages of 5 and 17 years, are involved in the labor market, whether with or without pay, according to the National Child Labor Survey, issued in 2016.

Amman - Al-Ghad - On the fifth of this month, the Social Security Corporation began implementing a system of excluding workers in establishments from inclusion in old-age insurance, thereby redirecting arrows of blame and criticism towards it from social insurance experts, for depriving some groups of inclusion in old-age insurance, which will cause a delay. Their retirement.

Amman - Al-Ghad - How does the National Employment Program, which the Ministry of Labor intends to launch next week, differ from previous programs that carried similar names, while experience in this field has proven to be ineffective, according to experts in unemployment affairs?

Sputnik News Agency - For a long time, Jordanian human rights organizations have said that there is “a gap between men and women and that discrimination at work has led to a decrease in the economic participation rates of Jordanian women and an increase in unemployment rates,” calling for government interventions to reform the legislative system that has exacerbated this crisis.

Amman Net - A paper issued by the Jordanian Strategy Forum in 2021 indicates that the female participation rate in the Jordanian labor market is 14.9%, a small percentage when compared to its male counterpart, which is 53.5%.

Al Bayan News Agency - Syrian child Jamal Hariri no longer wakes up early like other friends to get his bag and head to school, to continue his educational path. Rather, every morning means a new task for him among the fields of beans and tomatoes, and his dreams have become limited to collecting the largest possible number of boxes of vegetables so that he can Spending on his family.

Amman - Al-Ghad - Experts attributed the reason for the significant decrease in the number of people receiving unemployment benefits last January compared to the same month of the year 2021 to the return of most sectors to work.

Amman - Al-Ghad - Questions that have not yet been answered, raised by the failure to publish a decision, taken by the Tripartite Committee for Labor Affairs at the beginning of last January, in the Official Gazette until today, despite the legal custom requiring it to be published in the issue issued immediately after the decision was taken. Thus, several copies of the Official Gazette were issued, without containing the text of the decision, which stipulates in its first part, postponing raising the minimum wage, in a way that suits the inflation rate, until next year, and to take place over a period of 3 years.

Sputnik News Agency - In a shocking move, the report of the Center for the Protection and Freedom of Journalists classified media freedom in Jordan for the year 2021 as restricted freedom, in a press conference held yesterday, Monday, under the title “Shackled Media.”

Amman Net - While the unemployed Abdullah Harb and a group of young men continue their sit-in in front of the Ma’an Governorate building (200 km south of Amman) for nearly a month, 300 Jordanian economic figures are meeting at the Royal Court to search for solutions to the economic problems, most notably unemployment.

Amman - Arabic 21 - While the unemployed Abdullah Harb and a group of young people continue their sit-in in front of the Ma’an Governorate building (200 km south of Amman) for nearly a month, 300 Jordanian economic figures are meeting at the Royal Court to search for solutions to the problems of the economy, most notably unemployment. .

Hayat News - Director of the Labor House Center, Hamada Abu Najma, said that the national employment program will not solve or reduce the problem of unemployment.

Jafra News - These days, the eyes of Jordanians are turning to some European countries, the Emirates and Saudi Arabia, after decisions were issued regarding reducing work to four days during the week.

Amman Net - After waiting for more than 13 years, the government approved the agricultural workers’ system and published it in the Official Gazette so that it can be implemented...

Amman - Al-Ittihad - The expert in social affairs, director of the “Workers’ House,” Hamada Abu Najma, confirmed during a symposium recently organized by the Amman Group for Future Dialogues that the effects of the Corona pandemic will continue to have repercussions for a long time, indicating the need to think seriously about finding solutions to this problem, the most prominent of which is reviving The national employment strategy and updating it according to the data of the current stage.

Amman - Al Rai Newspaper - Private sector employees and workers fell between the hammer of dismissal if they concealed infection with the Corona virus and the anvil of deduction from their monthly wages if sick and annual leaves were exhausted.

Amman - Al-Ghad - Ambiguity prevails in the government’s position regarding its intention to enable workers in the agricultural sector to be included in social security in implementation of an article contained in the agricultural workers’ system that obliges the employer to do so.

Amman - Al-Ghad - The Ministry of Labor’s decision to burden the worker with the consequences of being infected with the virus by deducting the days of his absence from the balance of his sick and annual leave, and from his wages in the event that he exhausts this balance, sparked disapproval from labor activists who considered that the decision to disable those infected with the epidemic is primarily a government decision and the workers are not at fault for it.

Within the framework of its interest in various national issues, the Amman Future Dialogues Group organized a dialogue symposium on “The labor market, the future of the workforce, and the unemployment rate after the lifting of defense orders and the impact of this on societal peace.”