labor watch - Workers of Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) announced that they ended their strike and shall return to work as of Saturday after the management responded positively to their demands.
ASEZA workers appreciated the position of Hani Almulqi, the ASEZA Chief Commissioner for responding to their demands with regard to health insurance at private hospitals as well as for maintaining the JOD 75 allowance until the end of this year.
According to understandings based on which the strike was ended implied maintaining the JOD 75 allowance until the end of this year provided that this allowance will be replaced by a new incentives system by the beginning of the new year; furthermore, salaries of workers who were appointed until December 2014 shall not be touched, in addition to renewal of health insurance at private hospitals.
In the course of last week, ASEZA workers had started an escalatory course of walkouts and partial strikes in protest of seizing the JOD 75 allowance by the Prime Ministry.