AMMAN — A new report uncovered a scheme used by large
companies to increase their profits through the use of intermediary companies and
paying outsourced employees less than in-house employees, the Jordan News
Agency, reported.
اضافة اعلان
The report was published on Wednesday by the Phenix Center for Economics and
Informatics Studies'
Jordan Labor Watch in cooperation with the
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES).
It said there is a major
pay gap between large companies'
staff and intermediary businesses' workers despite doing the same job.
Beyond just job insecurity, outsourced workers were denied certain rights and
benefits that the in-house staff enjoy. For example, technicians in a company
in the Kingdom were paid JD1,000, meanwhile, their counterparts who were
outsourced are paid JD500 even though they carry out the same job and in the
same geographical areas.
Intermediary businesses' workers are also denied 13th and 14th-month
pay and the at-risk bonus, the report said. The bonuses range between JD70 to
JD100 for the large companies' staff, while support workers receive only JD15.
Moreover, outsourced workers have complained about the poor coverage that their
health insurance provides and the poor quality of health providers that the
insurance covers compared with their counterparts.
The report recommended terminating the accreditation of intermediary businesses
or regulating their work under a special system that guarantees support workers
the same pay and
social protection as their company counterparts.
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