AMMAN — Data issued by the
Department of Statistics showed that the average monthly wage for both public and
private-sector workers in Jordan during 2019 amounted to JD543, according to
the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
The department said in a statement on the occasion
of
International Labor Day, which falls on 1 May, that the Jordanian labor
movement has achieved substantial progress for more than half a century.
It added that the number of serious injuries at work
has decreased as a result of laws regulating public safety.
The department indicated that the number of insured
workers with the
Social Security Corporation (SSC) rose from 366,000 in 2000 to
about 1,327,823 people in 2020.
The statement clarified that despite gains made,
there are still many challenges facing the Jordanian labor market, the most
important of which is competition of expatriate workers whose numbers have been
increasing. Foreign workers compete with Jordanian labor and could deprive them
from job opportunities.
Meanwhile, economic participation by Jordanian women
remains low, as the revised economic participation rate (the number of
economically active women aged 15 years and over divided by the number of women
aged 15 years and over) for Jordanian women had reached 14 percent in 2021,
which it indicates that one woman out of every 7.14 women was economically
active in 2021, compared to one man out of every 1.85 men is economically
active in the age group 15 years and over.
The labor movement in Jordan is one of oldest movements
in the Arab world. The Jordan Labor Union was established in 1954 and had
participated in the founding of the Arab Labor Union.
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