AMMAN —
Minister of Labor Nayef Steitieh announced on Wednesday that an agreement has been reached with major fuel
distribution companies and the Syndicate of Fuel Owners to “give priority” to
employing Jordanians at gas stations, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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“We have agreed with major companies in the fuel
sector and the Syndicate of Fuel Owners to give priority to operating in fuel
stations only to Jordanians,” he said.
The agreement, which falls under the
National Employment Program, aims to “create permanent job opportunities, as those
working in these companies will have a career path and various incentives,
including social security and medical insurance,” Steitieh said. “There will be a JD500 cash incentive for
each young man and woman who completes work for a full year in the hydrocarbon
sector,” he added.
He said that he expected the agreement to create
more than 1,500 job opportunities.
In a related matter, Steitieh said that the ministry did not stop the
recruitment of expatriate workers in the agricultural sector, but it had
organized it, whereby each farmer will be allocated a specific number of
foreign workers.
In a meeting with the
Lower House Labor and
Agriculture Committees on Wednesday to discuss working permits issue, he said
that if a foreign worker leave the country, he can be replaced.
Minister of Interior Mazen Al-Faraya said during the meeting
that the ministry seizes daily expatriate workers who violate the conditions of
their work permits. He said there is a need to ensure that agricultural labor
does not infiltrate other sectors.
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