Pay Equity
Jordan Pay Equity Committee to begin community organizing campaign in Irbid’s private schools
The campaign will aim at empowering teachers working in private schools to negotiate for fair remuneration and better working conditions.
The ILO and the National Committee on Pay Equity (NCPE) will meet with Irbid’s Teachers Syndicate and other stakeholders to begin a campaign aimed at promoting equal wages between women and men school teachers and improving working conditions for female schoolteachers in the Northern Governorate, through empowering teachers working in the sector.
The training session will introduce the concept of community organising to potential members of the campaign’s core team. The core team will include private school teachers, head of the Women's Economic Empowerment Section and inspectors from Ministry of Labour, members of Jordan’s Teachers Syndicate, employee from the Social Security Corporation, and private school owners who will work with the ILO, NCPE and Ahel, a Jordanian organization that specialises in community organizing and campaign training, to help achieve fair wages of school teachers in Irbid.
Members will agree on a strategic objective that can be targeted in the 18-month long campaign. The ‘’Fair Wage for Female Teachers’’ campaign is based on recommendations of a recent ILO study on the Gender Pay Gap (GPG) in Jordan’s private education sector, which found a stark pay gap between women and men, with the rate of pay discrimination in Irbid being extremely high.
In addition to the study, the ILO and the NCPE launched a study in 2013, which puts forward legal amendments to promote equal remuneration for all workers in line with international standards, including the ILO’s Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100).
The training session will introduce the concept of community organising to potential members of the campaign’s core team. The core team will include private school teachers, head of the Women's Economic Empowerment Section and inspectors from Ministry of Labour, members of Jordan’s Teachers Syndicate, employee from the Social Security Corporation, and private school owners who will work with the ILO, NCPE and Ahel, a Jordanian organization that specialises in community organizing and campaign training, to help achieve fair wages of school teachers in Irbid.
Members will agree on a strategic objective that can be targeted in the 18-month long campaign. The ‘’Fair Wage for Female Teachers’’ campaign is based on recommendations of a recent ILO study on the Gender Pay Gap (GPG) in Jordan’s private education sector, which found a stark pay gap between women and men, with the rate of pay discrimination in Irbid being extremely high.
In addition to the study, the ILO and the NCPE launched a study in 2013, which puts forward legal amendments to promote equal remuneration for all workers in line with international standards, including the ILO’s Equal Remuneration Convention, 1951 (No. 100).