The Jordanian government has taken tough economic decisions affecting the salaries of the majority of Jordanian government employees, at a time when it announced the largest social protection program for the unemployed and those affected by the Coronavirus crisis and targeting about 400,000 families.
In this context, Omar Al-Razzaz, the Jordanian Prime Minister indicated that the government has made 220 decisions regarding the Coronavirus, pointing to the need to start work on the recovery phase of the Coronavirus, which requires a great effort and preparation for the next most important stage, titled Self-Reliance, pointing out that there are partners to protect the facility, the worker and the employer and the first partners are the policies of the central bank, the banking sector, and the programs that have started to come into effect, and currently aim to finance current expenditures such as salaries and production inputs, indicating that the central bank established a fund worth 500 million dinars to protect small and medium enterprises with small loans and interest rates not exceeding 2%.
Al-Razzaz revealed that the government decided to endure the cost of benefits of any loan that goes to pay salaries to workers with a one-year grace period.
Source (New Arab newspaper, Edited)
