AMMAN — The board of directors of Al-Rai daily
newspaper on Tuesday backtracked on its decision to dismiss six
employees for
demanding “our rights”.
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Abdullah
Al-Hadidi, member of a committee formed by the dismissed employees, told
Jordan
News that the board responded to their request to go back on the decision
to fire the employees, that the committee asked the
Jordanian Press Association (JPA) to follow up on the employees’ demands, and that the dialogue around
Al-Rai journalists’ and employees’ demands will continue.
Hadidi added that the dismissal decision was
arbitrary, and that “we were just asserting our rights” in making the demands,
adding that it is due to the state institutions’ negotiations with the board of
directors, with a view to solving the crisis, and the JPA’s standing by the
dismissed journalists that led to the reversal of the decision.
JPA’s Vice-president Jamal Shteiwi told
Jordan News that the
association insisted on having the journalists return to their work and on
cancelling the decision to dismiss them or of taking any legal action against
them.
Shteiwi added that the JPA had asked for the holding
an open meeting at the newspaper to deal with the crisis, stressing that
people’s livelihoods are a “red line and an issue that is not open for
discussion”.
JPA member, Al-Rai journalist
Khaled Al-Qudah said
that the association contacted all concerned parties over the past two days,
followed up on the administration’s decisions, which he described as “rash”,
and that “this issue extends beyond the newspaper, and has political dimensions
that will damage Jordan’s reputation”.
He added: “The crisis is the result of the weak and
incompetent administrations that took turns at the newspaper.”
Jordan News was unsuccessful in trying to
contact the minister of state for media affairs, Faisal Al-Shboul, and the
board of directors of Al-Rai newspaper.
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