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Jordan: NGO Better Work issues a policy brief on the concerns of migrant workers in the garment sector
Author: Better Work
Since late March 2020, Better Work staff have used the period of factory production suspension due to Covid-19 in Jordan to reach out via phone calls to workers and line management personnel. Calls have continued as production began to resume. The...
Jordan: ILO and Fafo issue an assessment of the Covid-19 impact on Jordanian and Syrian workers.
The International Labour Organization’s Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS) and Fafo Institute for Labour and Social Research (Oslo, Norway) have carried out an assessment to identify the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the most vulnerable workers...
Author: الرأي
"مصنع ينهي عقود 72 عاملاً في مدينة الحسن – أسماء"، 06-05-2020...
- Related in-depth areas: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak: Migrant workers تفشي الكورونا
Author: Jordan Labor Watch
"مصانع في المدن الصناعية تستثمر "عزلة العمال" لقضم حقوقه"، 22-04-2020 المرصد العمّالي- لا ينحصر الوباء بـ "كورونا" فقط، بل هُنالك وباء آخر استطاع أن يكون جائحاً أكثر من كورونا، وهو وباء "اضطهاد العاملين". سجّل "المرصد العمّالي" عدداً من الانتهاكات ا...
- Related in-depth areas: Discrimination Health & safety in the workplace Migrant workers تفشي الكورونا
Jordan: NGO counts 406 complaints raised against non payment of wages and other labour rights violations across sectors amid the crisis
Author: Jordan Times
"Study calls for defence order to protect labour rights'', 4th of April 2020...
- Related in-depth areas: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak: Supply chain workers
Middle East & No. Africa: Unions educate workers on rights during the Covid-19 outbreak and push for fair treatment
Author: Tula Connell, Solidarity Center
"Covid-19: Unions mobilize across Middle East/ No. Africa," 24 Mar 2020...
Jordan: Labour Ministry launches an online service for workers to report labour rights violations amid Coronavirus
Author: Jordan Times
"Labour Ministry will not condone violations amid curfew", Mar 22,2020...
Jordan gov’t rolls out remote work policies over virus fears
"Jordan gov’t rolls out remote work policies over virus fears", 14 March, 2020...
- Related in-depth areas: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Outbreak: Government & business response
Jordan: Workers denied "a dignified living" as austerity policies disempower vulnerable workers
Author: Marta Vidal, The Guardian (UK)
"'He just wanted dignity': the tragedy that captured the mood of a nation," 27 Feb 2020...
Middle East & N. Africa: Civil society criticises the evaluation of EU Association Agreements and their impact on socio-economic wellbeing in the region
A coalition of civil society organisations in the Middle East and North Africa have published a statement jointly criticising the evaluation study of six Association Agreements (AAs) between the EU and Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and...