27 January 2005
AMMAN (Petra) -- Geologists working at the Jordan Phosphate Mines Copmany (JPMC) will meet Saturday to discuss possible measures to be taken to force the company to pay them an allowance approved for geologists working for private sector entitites. The meeting was called for by the Jordan Geologists Association after a JPMC board meeting on Tuesday decided to postpone discussing the allowance issue. Association President Khalid Shawabkeh said a Royal Decree approved paying an allowance equallying 120 per cent of the basic salary of each goelogist working at the public sector as of the beginning of 2003 but the company was procrastinating in implementing the decree. The company maintains that as a private shareholding company, it does not have to pay any such allowance. But Shawabkeh insists that the company is a public entity, not a private one, since 67 per cent of its shares are owned by the government, and since its director and board are appointed by the government. Thus, it has to pay its 27 geologists the allowance, Shawabkeh insisted.
AMMAN (Petra) -- Geologists working at the Jordan Phosphate Mines Copmany (JPMC) will meet Saturday to discuss possible measures to be taken to force the company to pay them an allowance approved for geologists working for private sector entitites. The meeting was called for by the Jordan Geologists Association after a JPMC board meeting on Tuesday decided to postpone discussing the allowance issue. Association President Khalid Shawabkeh said a Royal Decree approved paying an allowance equallying 120 per cent of the basic salary of each goelogist working at the public sector as of the beginning of 2003 but the company was procrastinating in implementing the decree. The company maintains that as a private shareholding company, it does not have to pay any such allowance. But Shawabkeh insists that the company is a public entity, not a private one, since 67 per cent of its shares are owned by the government, and since its director and board are appointed by the government. Thus, it has to pay its 27 geologists the allowance, Shawabkeh insisted.
© Jordan Times 2005
