The Position of the Jordanian Legislator from Workers' Strike

Abstract

This study is revolves around Jordan legislator position from workers who organized issue of going on strike, as well as explaining the legal texts related to it and shows the penalties resulting in case of practice by them. The researcher used the descriptive and analytical method in reading, analyzing the legal texts in this regard and extrapolation the views of writers in relevant legal books and apply it on Jordanian reality. The most important results that the strike not limited to the private sector employees, but the legal texts in Jordanian Constitution ensured the right of workers in in public facilities to express and freedom of opinion, and free regulatory regulation. The study recommended the necessity to reconsider the issue of prohibition of strike and create legal texts organize such regulation within specific rules and bases, as it condones many cases of such strikes, especially in public facilities, and harms its functioning, and it is applied by employees whether been blocked or approved.

Key words: The Issue of Going on Strike, Jordanian legislator, Sit-in