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Stories of Discrimination in the Workplace in Jordan

Multiple forms of discrimination and other structural barriers prevent women from participating in the labour market on an equal footing with men: low salaries, limited opportunities for reaching leadership positions, and inadequate child care are...

National Committee for Pay Equity: Gender-based discrimination in the workplace must end

The National Committee for Pay Equity and the ILO host symposium to improve working conditions for women in Jordan.

Pay discrimination

Giving private-sector teachers in Jordan a voice

A group of Jordanian teachers are making their voices heard to end gender-based pay discrimination and unfair working conditions in the private education sector through a community organizing campaign.

Entrepreneurship education: Know About Business in Jordan: Public-Private Partnership

The ILO’s Know About Business (KAB) training programme has contributed to the creation of an enterprise culture in many countries and societies. It promotes awareness among young people of the opportunities and challenges of entrepreneurship and...

Fact sheet

Improving working conditions and promoting competitiveness in global supply chains: The ILO/IFC Better Work Programme: Public-Private...

Better Work is an innovative partnership between the International Labour Organization, the International Finance Corporation, and as at December 2013, 22 buyer partners and 827 factories employing 966,762 women and men. The programme plays a...

Regional Dialogue on Market Impact of Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt: summary report and conclusions

The countries neighbouring Syria and hosting large numbers of refugees are struggling to find an appropriate response to the labour market impact of the massive refugee influx. With no or limited legal access to work, Syrian refugees are working...

Pay Equity in Jordan

Fighting for pay equity in Jordan's private education sector

In 2011, the Ministry of Labor in Jordan and the Jordanian National Commission for Women (JNCW) joined forces with the International Labour Organization (ILO) to launch the National Committee for Pay Equity (NCPE) to address gender-based...

Skills for Trade & Economic Diversification (STED) Pharmaceutical Sector

This report presents an application of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) methodology to the pharmaceutical sector of Jordan’s economy. STED is a sector-based approach to identifying...

Skills for Trade & Economic Diversification (STED) Food Processing & Beverage Sector

This report presents an application of the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) methodology to the Food Processing sector of Jordan’s economy. STED is a sector-based approach to identifying...

Agenda of Regional Dialogue on Market Impact of Syrian Refugee Crisis in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt

Palestinian employers gather in Jordan to forge unified recommendations on draft social security law

As the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) prepares to roll out a historic comprehensive social security system to cover all private sector workers and their family members, the ILO gathers Palestinian employer representatives at a workshop to...

Press Release

Collective bargaining and social dialogue highlighted in workshop as vital tools to ensure good industrial relations in MENA region

The ILO brings together employer and union representatives from the MENA region to explore successful collective bargaining and bipartite social dialogue structures and practices in selected sectors.

Fair recruitment initiative: Working paper no. 2

Executive summary: The business of recruiting Bangladeshi women for domestic work in Jordan and Lebanon

Migration

A centre for migrant workers in Jordan

Tens of thousands of migrants work in Jordan's fast-growing garment sector, but many of them face difficult living and working conditions. The ILO is working to change that, and has established a workers' center in Jordan's largest industrial zone....

Youth employment

Jordan: Eager teens enthused by entrepreneurship education

Teachers were trained and nearly 550 Jordanian youth learned how to set up and run a business through the “Know about Business” course, a joint ILO, non-profit and government collaboration which fills a big gap in entrepreneurship education.

The Jordanian Labour Market: Multiple segmentations of labour by nationality, gender, education and occupational classes

This discussion paper analyses available labour market evidence to identify key segments of workers - nationals, migrants (or migrants in strict sense) and refugees (or forced migrants) in the Jordanian labour market, and their interactions.

Syrian refugee crisis

High-level policy meeting calls for reversal of negative labour market impacts of Syrian refugee crisis on host nations

High-level representatives from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt have gathered under the banner of the ILO to exchange experiences and formulate sustainable policies and programmes that respond to the labour market impacts of the Syrian...

Workshop Report: Regional Training on Livelihoods and Child Labour

The ILO project “Combating child labour through skills and livelihoods training for older children” is implementing training workshops in each of the project countries through a number of activities which will develop capacity of local partners. To...

Child labour

Denmark-led programme funds ILO project to combat child labour in Jordan and Lebanon among Syrian refugees and host communities in need

The Denmark-led Regional Development and Protection Programme (RDPP) has funded an International Labour Organization (ILO) project to combat rising child labour among Syrian refugees and host communities through labour policy reform and technical...

Fair recruitment initiative

For a fee: The business of recruiting Bangladeshi women for domestic work in Jordan and Lebanon

This working paper aims to shed light on the business models of labour recruiters that facilitate the recruitment of women from South Asian countries into domestic work in the Middle East, with a particular focus on Bangladesh, Jordan and Lebanon.