Al-Rahhala: ensuring partnership and coordination with all industrial and commercial sectors to help them sustain their business and protect their workers

The Amman Chamber of Industry organized a dialogue meeting to review the programs of the Social Security Corporation during the Corona crisis and its most prominent developments, in the presence of the president and members of the Amman and Jordan Chambers of Industry and representatives of all industrial and commercial sectors.

The members of the Chamber discussed the problems facing the industrial sector as a result of the Corona crisis, the programs that the institution developed during the pandemic for the affected facilities, the mechanisms for their application and benefit, and the problems they faced in regard to them, presenting some proposals and solutions to the Warranty Institution regarding defense orders programs that benefit the industrial sector for consideration and applicability.

The Chairman of the Amman Chamber of Industry and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Jordan Chamber of Industry, Fathi Al-Jaghbir, stressed the importance of the role played by the Insurance Corporation at the humanitarian, social and economic levels, praising the role of the Corporation during the Corona pandemic and the various programs it launched to serve the workforce, facilities and society in general, which created forces of economic balance. And socially to preserve the workforce and the sustainability of facilities, indicating that the Chamber of Industry is in contact and dialogue with the Insurance Corporation regarding the programs and mechanisms applied by the Corporation and to overcome the difficulties for this sector to benefit from them.

The Director-General of the Social Security Corporation, Dr. Hazem Al-Rahahleh, said that the Corporation was and still is in partnership and coordination with the industrial and commercial sectors to help these sectors perpetuate their work and protect their workers through the numerous programs it provided to help these sectors during the Corona pandemic, expressing the Corporation's readiness to study all proposals and opinions. provided by the industrial sector.

Al-Rahahleh confirmed that the Corporation provided social protection for workers and employers within its programs implemented during defense orders issued by the Prime Ministry, which contributed to perpetuating the wheel of the national economy, indicating that the Insurance Corporation made great efforts during the Corona pandemic, based on its national role, and stood with the industrial and commercial sector. And the service sector and its support to overcome the damage caused to the economic sectors as a result of the epidemic.

He indicated that the Prime Minister's Communiqué No. (52) of 2021 included extending the work of the basic sustainability program and the amended sustainability program, until the end of June of this year, for the facilities benefiting from these two programs, noting that the number of facilities benefiting from the sustainability program and the sustainability rate reached (2400). A facility employing more than (41) thousand workers.

He stressed that the mandatory inclusion of workers in social security is to protect the worker and that social security is not limited to early retirement and old age salaries, but there is a system of other insurances to protect workers in the event of their disability or exposure to work injuries that lead to their disability or death.

At the end of the meeting, Dr. Hazem Al-Rahahleh answered all the questions and inquiries of the attendees with clarity and transparency.

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