AMMAN — Dozens of
Pharmacy One employees picketed the
company's headquarters anew today (Sunday) to protest the administration's
measures and failure to pay their wages for months.
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Protesters held banners criticizing the Lower House,
Ministry of Labor, Pharmacists Syndicate, and the Cabinet for failing to
resolve their issue.
In April, ImpACT International for Human Rights Policies
criticized Pharmacy One for “violating employees’ basic rights by depriving
them of their salaries for months.”
According to the organization in a statement issued then,
Pharmacy One management practiced “some form of pressure such as transferring
employees to distant branches in a bid to pressure them into submitting
requests for unpaid leaves or even resignation.”
The sit-in ended when the company’s administration held a
meeting with the employees’ representatives, in the presence of the company’s
lawyers, accompanied by officials from the Public Security Directorate and the
Ministry of Labor.
Pharmacy One, the largest pharmacy chain in Jordan, agreed
to pay two months’ worth of salaries within 14 days.
“The company
repeatedly promised to pay our salaries going back to October. My situation got
worse and I was forced to sell my car, and I got a divorce because I was unable
to provide for my household,” Saqer Kamel, one of the protesters said as he
took part in April’s protest.
“The management of Pharmacy One has recorded the names of
the employees who have protested and I expect they will push them to resign,” a
protester, who preferred to remain unnamed, told Jordan News.
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