2013 Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights - Jordan
| Publisher | International Trade Union Confederation |
| Publication Date | 6 June 2013 |
| Cite as | International Trade Union Confederation, 2013 Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights - Jordan, 6 June 2013, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/51b8516a18.html [accessed 30 May 2023] |
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Collective agreements are disrespected: In March 2013, Jordan Press Foundation employees went on strike asking management to honour a collective agreement concluded two years previously on an annual salary increase.
Exclusion from the right to bargain: Public and municipality employees cannot bargain collectively. Domestic servants, gardeners, cooks, and agricultural workers are not granted the right to bargain collectively.
Legal reform: In August 2012, around 80 workers and union representatives gathered outside the Parliament in Abdali on a Sunday to protest about the exclusion of the 2010 amendments to the Social Security Law from the agenda of the legislative session. Electricity Workers' Union President Ali Hadid said that the government had broken a promise that officials had made to them at a meeting in February following a 250-person demonstration against the temporary Social Security Law.
