Jordan Labor Watch has condemned the termination of several workers’ contracts at a business development and support company working with the National Electric Power Company (NEPCO), which comes following a strike and protest by the workers, stressing the measure is in violation of Jordanian law and international conventions ratified by Jordan.

Approximately three months after the Committee for Public Sector Modernization announced its recommendation to abolish the Ministry of Labor, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Supply Youssef al-Shamali has received his second ministerial portfolio—the latest change introduced by Bisher Al-Khasawneh’s government’s.

The Chairman of the Lower House Committee on Labor, Social Development and Population, MP Hussein Al-Harasis, has submitted an official report to the General Secretariat of the House of Representatives on what transpired during the Committee’s meeting with Garandel Manpower Services, after a verbal altercation broke out between members of the Committee and company representatives.

Workers at Jordan’s National Center for Human Rights’ executive body, the Secretariate, have organized a one-hour partial strike for the 77th consecutive day, to demand the annulment of the appointments to leadership roles issued by the Center’s former Commissioner General, Dr. Irhil Gharaibeh, before his departure.

Dozens of retired workers from the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company once again gathered for a renewed sit-in in front of the company’s offices in Amman on Monday, to protest the company's disregard for their demands—namely, the reinstatement of health insurance coverage for its pensioners, as it was in 2000.