WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE PLATFORM ECONOMY Fairwork Jordan Ratings 2023

A recent the amount needed to cover living costs in Jordan, different assessment of the size of the informal economy based sources suggest that it ranges between 480 and 502 JOD on an evaluation of Social Security Corporation and ILO (USD 680-708) per month to cover a mean family’s costs.22 data estimates that 51.6 percent of Jordan’s economy is In the context of the government’s decision not to r. [...] The lack of a permit fee makes Ride-hailing platform workers must pay 400 JOD annually the unlicensed platforms financially attractive to workers to obtain a ride-hailing permit at the Land Transportation because they do not have to pay the annual license fee of Regulatory Commission (LTRC), allowing them to work for 400 JOD, equivalent to almost two months of the minimum the so-called premium rid. [...] Workers are not protected In order to protect the working rights of Jordanian citizens against arbitrary termination of the work arrangement, and mitigate the high unemployment rate, access to as the rule of governance lies unilaterally with the the labour market is restricted for non-Jordanians,38 platforms, allowing platforms to make decisions over with expatriate workers allowed to work only in. [...] None cash, which means that drivers pay the commission to the of the workers reported to have received a physical copy of platforms through the balance card system.48 the contract. [...] Fairwork scores are updated on a yearly basis; allows the first to be awarded corresponding to the first the scores presented in this report were derived from data threshold, and an additional second point to be awarded pertaining to the 12 months between October 2022 and corresponding to the second threshold (see Table 1).