Tamkeen for Legal Aid and Human Rights said in a position paper issued on the occasion of International Women's Day that it received 409 complaints from women workers in 2020, of which 68 were during the period of comprehensive and partial curfew.

According to Tamkeen, this indicates an increase in labor abuses against women in the Jordanian labor market, especially during the spread of the Corona pandemic in the year 2020, noting that “even after the end of the curfew many women migrant workers were unable to return to their countries after the termination of their contracts because their employers refused to pay travel fees and costs.

The majority of complaints were filed by Jordanian workers (133 complaints) and Filipinos (88 complaints). There have also been complaints from egyptian and Yemeni workers. Tamkeen notes that the number of complaints filed by Syrian refugees decreased in 2020 due to their inability to work during the curfew or because they work illegally and therefore do not benefit from social protection. The abuses took place across many sectors including garment factories in the qualifying industrial zones, customer service, clothing and accessories retail stores, restaurants and administrative work.

The complaints includes non payment of wages (266 complaints), non payment of overtime or holidays compensations, and passport seizure (123 complaints) and long working hours (82 complaints). A large number of women workers were also subject to arbitrary dismissal despite the Defense Order 6 which prohibits the termination of contracts or dismissal by employers.