Jordan Aircraft Maintenance Limited (Joramco), AES Company, the General Union of Electrical Workers, and the General Union of Air Transport and Tourism Workers, under the supervision of the Jordanian Ministry of Labour, signed two employment contracts.

Dismissed construction workers organised a protest on 4 January in the headquarters of the Regional Labour Union in Sidi Bouzid.

Five hundred temporary workers at the Ministry of Social Affairs have not received their salaries for six months. Some of them have been working in the Ministry for about 25 years.

The Syndicate of Workers and Users of the Electricité du Liban (EDL) has committed to a three-day strike from 9 until 11 December, due to the indifference of the Prime Minister and the Minister of Energy and Water to the trade union and the workers’ protests, not attending the sessions, and not receiving and delivering fuel, including unloading ships.

On Thursday, December 9, sanitation workers, especially workers without contracts, in the municipality of Kasserine launched an open strike, due to the indifference to their demands that include having a uniform, tools of occupational safety, professional promotions and allowing temporary employees who have been working in the municipality for 8 years to have permanent contracts.