"291 female workers in Jordan filed complaints in 2022,"

[Tamkeen has] said that the majority of complaints — 139 in all — were related to the withholding of wages. This was followed by passport confiscation at 114 complaints, vacation day suspension and long working hours at 76 complaints each, lack of social security enrolment at 75 complaints, and denial of overtime pay at 69 complaints.

In terms of sectors, 188 complaints were submitted by domestic workers, followed by 18 from the beauty sector, 16 from factories, 10 from the education sector, and 59 from the hygiene, sales, agriculture, restaurants, services, pharmacy, and mechanics sectors, combined.

Jordanian women filed 55 of the complaints, followed by Filipinas with 54 complaints. Workers from Ghana submitted 44 complaints and those with Ethiopian nationality submitted 30, while Bangladeshis and Ugandans filed 23 complaints each, Sri Lankans 20, and Nepalese 19. The remainder of the complaints were distributed among those of Syrian, Yemeni, Egyptian, Indonesian, Pakistani, Kenyan, and Sudanese nationalities...

The paper recommended that laws be activated to regulate women’s work and eliminate all forms of discrimination, such as the wage gap. It called on all governmental and non-governmental agencies to consider the figures related to women’s work in the labor market, to re-examine and formulate educational and functional plans, programs, and strategies that are in line with the needs of the labor market.

It also called on the authorities to provide women with access to work centers to empower them economically and socially, and to conduct studies on the challenges facing women's labor participation and possible solutions that can be implemented to reduce these challenges.