Ammon News - The Ministry of Labor, in conjunction with a number of partners in the public and private sectors, is carrying out the Productive Branches Initiative, which comprises opening branches for businesses in communities with high rates of unemployment and poverty.

Currently, 29 productive branches are operating in governorates across the Kingdom, employing a total of 8,481 male and female workers out of 10,930 employment openings, all of which will be filled by the end of the current year.

Speaking to the Jordan News Agency on Monday, the ministry’s Director of the Productive Branches Department, Najah Al-Bariqi, said that by building production branches and luring investments in all governorates, the project will economically and socially benefit the society by giving the unemployed training and employment chances.

Building production branches in rural and underdeveloped areas aims to give unemployed Jordanians, particularly women, training and employment opportunities, supported by businesses in terms of construction costs, worker salaries, social security, labor transportation costs, and other infrastructure-related costs in addition to tax and customs incentives.