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AMMAN — More than 150 out of 340 Indonesian domestic workers, who were living in their embassy after fleeing their employers, were repatriated to their country on Tuesday, according to Indonesian Ambassador Zainulbahar Noor.

(MENAFN - Jordan Times) Jordan faces the challenge of meeting the health demands of a vast number of migrants, with foreign-born individuals residing in the country accounting for 46 per cent (around three million) of the total population in 2010, according to the results of a study released on Tuesday.

A Jordan-based NGO said they have recorded around 110 complaints from Sri Lankan migrant workers from January to June this year.

AMMAN — Jordan and Bangladesh on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding opening up the South Asian country as a new source for the recruitment of domestic helpers, which is expected to lower recruitment costs for employers in Jordan.

Enforcing workers’ rights and improving their working conditions would enhance productivity of domestic garment industry, and would also boost exports to overseas markets, particularly to the US, Jordan Labour Minister Maher Wakid said.

AMMAN — Sixty-five cases of tuberculosis (TB) were registered in the Kingdom in the first quarter of the year, the majority of them Jordanians, a Ministry of Health official said on Tuesday.

AMMAN — Around 100 guest workers will be repatriated after being found in violation of labour regulations during an inspection campaign the labour ministry started earlier this week, a ministry official said on Tuesday.

“We will stop sending migrant workers to Jordan, if they don’t give us proper solutions to the problems faced by the Sri Lankan employees in Jordan”, warned Foreign Employment Welfare  Minister Dilan Perera, at a press conference held at the Government Information Department today.