The Minister of Labor issues more measures to facilitate employers to benefit from the period of legalization and to reconcile the conditions of non-Jordanian workers
The Minister
of Labor, Youssef Al-Shamali, issued a decision that included more procedures
and executive provisions that would facilitate and simplify the employers to
benefit from the Cabinet's decision regarding the period of legalization and
reconciliation of the status of non-Jordanian workers for the year 2021, which
started from 7/4/2021 and continues until 9/2/2021.
The Northern
Minister's decision included the following executive procedures and provisions:
1. Allowing
non-Jordanian workers working in the agricultural sector to move to any permitted
sectors, provided that the work permit is canceled or expired.
2. Allowing
non-Jordanian workers working in the bakery sector to move to any of the sectors
allowed to them, provided that the work permit is canceled or expired.
3. Allowing
the licensed facility and its objectives according to the retail trade
professions license to issue work permits for a profession (labor/loading and
unloading worker), provided that the facility's area is not less than (75)
square meters.
4. Allowing
non-Jordanian workers working in the garment and textile industry sector in the
Qualified Industrial Zones and registered with the Investment Authority, whose
work permit has expired or been canceled, to move to any employer within the industry
or any other economic sector or activity that is allowed to move to, provided
that a release of a party is brought from the employer Previous for those whose
work permit has expired.
5. Allowing
the transition to a free daily work permit, both agricultural and construction,
from the sectors and economic activities from which it is allowed to move,
provided that the worker participates in social security.
6. Allowing
non-Jordanian workers who hold a valid daily work permit, both agricultural and
construction, to cancel the license at the Labor Directorate or the appropriate
labor office without referring to the National Company for Employment and
Training and to move to the sectors and economic activities to which they are
allowed to drive.
7. Allowing
non-Jordanian male workers of restricted and non-restricted nationalities to
move to the domestic worker's sector to work in the profession of trained
worker/gardener, house worker/chef, and according to the conditions and
procedures force in the ministry.
8. Allowing
male domestic workers of non-restricted nationalities to move outside the
domestic worker's sector, provided that the work permit expires or is canceled
without the homeowner's consent.
9.
Permitting the renewal of work permits for non-Jordanian workers who hold work
permits in permitted professions that the same employer has withheld, provided
that the admission granted is one of the allowed professions (except for the
education sector and hospitals).
10. Allowing
the licensed facility and its objectives, according to the professional's
license, administrative offices, insurance, money exchange, auditing, law,
engineering, or consulting offices, to issue a work permit for a job (labor/cleaner)
for one worker only.
11. Allowing
the licensed facility and its objectives according to the profession's license
a charitable organization, the headquarters of an association or association,
to issue a work permit as a profession (labor/cleaner) for one worker only.
12. Allowing the licensed facility and its objectives according to the professional license cultivation, landscaping, and maintenance of gardens and farms, or garden services, to issue a work permit for a skilled (worker/loading and unloading worker) with a maximum of two (2) workers only.