Lower House finance committee reviews Labour Ministry budget

AMMAN — Members of the Lower House’s finance committee on Tuesday discussed the 2018 draft budgets of the Labour Ministry and affiliated units.

MP Ahmad Safadi, head of the panel, said that an unemployment rate of 18 per cent requires effective and serious policies that contribute to addressing shortcomings in the labour market, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

Labour Minister Ali Ghezawi said that the ministry has adopted a new mechanism, in cooperation with the International Labour Organisation, to limit high unemployment rates, noting that the economy in 2017 created 2.5 million jobs, of which 1.4 million were for Jordanians.

The committee also discussed the budget of the Social Security Investment Fund with its Executive Chairperson Suhair Al Ali and went over projects the fund implements.