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Economy, tax incentives & labor conditions

There are still many restrictions on Jordanian workers’ trade union rights, including the continued single union system. The ever increasing number of migrant workers still have no union rights.
(ITUC-CSI , Suisse , 01/12/2007 , Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights )

On 3 August 2006, ten workers at the Turkish factory Atateks who had started and led a protest that had brought an improvement in working conditions and wages a few weeks earlier were taken to the police station in a vehicle owned by the management, on the pretext of escorting them to Amman to get their residence permits. Having warned their colleagues of their arrest by mobile phone, which sparked off a demonstration, the ten workers were beaten up and stripped of all their clothes. On 6 August they were expelled from the country, without even being allowed to collect their belongings. The authorities explained that they had been sacked by their manager and deported since they represented a threat, but refused to go into further details. On 2 September 2006, a dispute at the Palestinian factory Silver Planet had a similar outcome: the ten workers representing the 500 Bengali staff were deported, also following imprisonment.
(ITUC-CSI , Suisse , 01/12/2007 , Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights )

Several strikes involving Asian workers broke out in assembly plants in Export processing zones in 2006, but brought little benefit to the workers, who were often suffering from appalling working conditions and the threat of deportation.
(ITUC-CSI , Suisse , 01/12/2007 , Annual Survey of violations of trade union rights )

Minimum wage noted (US$/day)
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Main labor right violations
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