The Jordan Labour Watch issued a report etitled

Workers in the Sector of Health Support Services: Stolen Rights

This report Prepared by the Phenix Center for Economic and Informatics Studies in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.

This report examines the work circumstances of workers in the sector of health support services.

Those workers are defined as workers in the fields of hygiene, nutrition, janitors in public and private hospitals, clinics and health centers, pharmacies, laboratories, and x-ray clinics in addition to other health related sectors.

The working conditions of this class of workers will be discussed in light of Jordanian labor legislations such as the Jordanian Labor Law, and the Social Security Law as well as other relevant laws. The report will also include an overview of the numbers of workers in this sector, distribution (Jordanian vs. guest non-Jordanian workers), their gender distribution, wage rates, access to social security services offered by the

Social Security Corporation to contributors, annual leaves, national holidays, sick leaves, health insurance, daily working hours, level of safety and vocational health at their work, and job stability.

The report results show that the workers in this sector are denied the majority of basic rights guaranteed by the Jordanian Labor Law. This includes getting salaries below the standard minimum wage rates, long, and almost forced, working hours, denial to annual and sick leaves and national holidays; denial of overtime pay and contribution to social security, lack of occupational health and safety conditions, as well as other basic labor rights.

This report is the result of interviews with tens of workers in this sector and with a number of union workers at the General Trade Union of Workers in Health Services. It is also the result of field visits made to workplaces made by the report team as well as contacts made with some senior employees at the Ministry of Health and the Private Hospitals Association.

Full report:

Workers in the Sector of Health Support Services Stolen Rights