AMMAN — The
Ministry of Labor Sunday said
that about 3,893 flexible work permits were issued to Syrian workers in Jordan
during 2021, according to Al-Mamlaka TV.
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Ministry spokesperson Mohammed Al-Zayoud said that
flexible work permits are granted to foreign workers, including Syrians,
granting them the right to work in “specific occupations”.
He pointed out that the majority of professions in
the private sector are reserved to Jordanians, and “expatriate workers are
prohibited from working in them”.
The Ministry of Labor grants Syrian laborers
specific and temporary work permits, which are renewable, “so that their
presence in the labor market is legal and does not violate the provisions of
the Labor Law, in order to avoid any legal procedures in this regard”.
“The work permit protects both worker and employer,”
said Zayoud.
Since the beginning of 2018, more than 25,000
flexible permits have been issued for
Syrians in all sectors, except
agriculture, according to the General Federation of Jordanian Trade Unions.
Jordan has hosted more than 1.3 million Syrians
since the start of the crisis in 2011; about 67,748 are registered with the
UNHCR. There are more than 5 million Syrian refugees in Jordan and neighboring
countries.
In 2020, the
number of work permits issued to Syrian refugees in Jordan decreased to 38,756,
from 47,766 in 2019, a decrease of 18.8 percent, according to UNHCR statistics.
In December 2020, the
Council of Ministers approved
the extension of its previous decision to correct the situation of illegal
Syrian workers, and exempted them from paying for work permits, requiring, in
exchange, that they undergo the necessary medical examination before December
31, 2021.
Article 12 of the Labor Law stipulates that “a
non-Jordanian worker must obtain a work permit from the minister, or his
delegate, before his recruitment or use, and the period of the permit may not
exceed one year, renewable, and its duration shall be calculated upon renewal
from the date of expiry of the period of the last work permit obtained.”
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