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In line with the Jordanian government's approach and the national campaign it
launched to raise the salaries of public and private sector employees, Javna's
board decided a 9% raise for all its employees, to be dispensed on an annual
basis as a cost of living allowance.
Javna, the leading Arab company specialized in electronic solutions and wireless
applications, promised to double this raise in February, when the board is
expected to endorse the annual salary raise, which stood last year at an average
of 35 percent.
Javna's CEO Mansour Mansour hailed the board's decisions, which, he said,
underlined the company's care about the welfare of its human resources and
keenness to keep its staff.
He said: 'The raise is a first step to improve the income of employees. It will
be followed by other measures aimed to ensure Javna's personnel and their
families a decent living.'
Mansour urged private sector companies, in general, and those working in the
telecom field, in particular, to revisit their pay system with a view to improve
the living conditions of their employees so as to prevent the immigration of
qualified Jordanians as a result of the current economic conditions.
For his part, Javna's Director of Human Resources Development Emad Bahsh warned
against the consequences of the hike in the prices of commodities and inflation,
coupled with relatively low wages.
Bahsh called on telecom and IT companies to retain innovative Jordanian workers
in the field before they find themselves forced to look for jobs abroad.
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