Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2024, published 113rd ILC session (2025)

Social Security (Minimum Standards) Convention, 1952 (No. 102) - Jordan (Ratification: 2014)

Article 34 of the Convention. Medical care. The Committee takes note of the Government’s indication in its report that the Social Security Corporation assumes the entirety of medical costs incurred by injured persons, including dental treatment, pharmaceutical supplies, eyeglasses, hospital accommodation, and home nursing.

Article 35. Rehabilitation services. The Committee takes note of the information provided by the Government concerning the provision of rehabilitation services to injured persons.

Article 69(f). Suspension of benefits. The Committee notes the Government’s reference to section 31(A)(2) of the Social Security Act No. 1 of 2014, which stipulates that the daily allowance for temporary disability due to employment injury shall be suspended if the employment injury resulted from the use of alcohol, narcotics, psychotropic substances or other dangerous drugs. The Government further indicates that the Social Security Corporation conducts investigations of such cases, and that benefits are not suspended if the employment injury led to the person’s death or caused permanent total or partial disability of not less than 30 per cent.

The Committee recalls that under Article 69(f) of the Convention, suspension of benefits is allowed only when the employment injury has been caused by the beneficiary’s wilful misconduct. The Committee therefore requests the Government to provide information on the measures taken to ensure that, in practice, the Social Security Corporation suspends benefits under section 31(a)(2) of Act No.1 of 2014 only in situations where the intoxication by alcoholic drinks, narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances or other dangerous drugs has been caused by the wilful misconduct of the beneficiary. The Committee also requests the Government to provide information on any cases of suspension of benefits based on section 31(a)(2) of Act No. 1 of 2014.