AMMAN — The Tripartite Committee
for Labor Affairs has decided to keep the minimum wage in Jordan at JD260, and
not to raise it in 2023 or 2024, a source told Al-Mamlaka TV on Thursday.
اضافة اعلان
With the decision, the committee stipulated
that it would review the minimum wage at the beginning of 2025, recalculating
it to account for inflation witnessed in the Kingdom from 2022 through 2024.
On Thursday, the tripartite committee,
whose members represent employers, workers, and the government, held a meeting
chaired by Labor Minister Youssef Al-Shamali to study the minimum wage.
During the meeting, the committee members
affirmed their keenness to achieve a balance between improving the living
conditions of workers and sustaining economic activities in various sectors, in
light of intense competition with regional and global markets and the negative
impact of the pandemic on institutions and economic activities.
The result of the meeting was a decision to
keep the minimum wage at the current JD260 for the next two years.
The last minimum wage increaseEarly in 2020, the Official Gazette had
published a decision to raise the minimum wage from JD220 to JD260, to take
effect at the beginning of 2021.
The decision also included "increasing
the minimum wage for the years 2022, 2023, and 2024, equivalent to the
inflation rate for the previous year, which is issued by the authorities".
‘Burdens and costs’Last year, Shamali stated that any decision
to raise minimum wage would be tied to the private sector, not the public sector,
noting that the repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic had played a role in the
failure to issue any decision raising the minimum wage in the past two years.
In a previous statement, the minister said
he “did not expect" minimum wage to be raised for 2023 and 2024,
attributing this to the "burdens and costs" that would be reflected
on the public and private sectors.
Last month, the Social
Security Corporation announced that Jordan’s minimum wage would
be increased to JD271, then retracted the decision a day later, keeping it at
JD260.
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