Cabinet to discuss JPA pension by-law

AMMAN — The ministerial legal committee on Thursday endorsed the 2019 draft by-law abolishing the pension by-law for members of the Jordan Press Association (JPA).

The decision was made during a panel meeting headed by Minister of State for Legal Affairs Mubarak Abu Yamin and attended by JPA President Rakan Saaydeh and JPA Deputy President Yanal Barmawi, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. The by-law is scheduled to be discussed and endorsed by the Cabinet next week before being published in the Official Gazette.

Later, dissolving procedures of the pension fund would start through a committee formed by the JPA council chaired by the deputy president and the membership of three members of the JPA general assembly who are subscribed to the fund and the syndicate’s legal auditor as stipulated in the by-law.