AMMAN — The Director of the National Employment Programme at the Ministry of Labor, Riyad Shammout, said on Tuesday that the programme signed 61,330 supported employment contracts between 2022 and 2025, including 31,444 contracts with women.

 

Shammout said that around 75 per cent of beneficiaries continued working after the wage-support period ended, based on follow-up data from the Social Security Corporation, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

 

He explained that private-sector companies participating in the programme focused primarily on hiring individuals aged 18 to 29, with 43,045 contracts signed with this age group since the programme’s launch in 2022.

 

According to Shammout, the number of supported employment contracts signed in 2025 alone reached 16,139, including 7,404 contracts with women.

 

Of these, he added, 12,109 contracts were signed with beneficiaries aged 18 to 29.

 

He also said that 7,043 beneficiaries of the National Employment Programme were recipients of the National Aid Fund between 2022 and 2025, leading to 1,194 families exiting reliance on national aid. “In 2025 alone, 1,976 National Aid Fund beneficiaries joined the programme, including 704 women.”

 

Shammout said that approximately 3,530 private-sector establishments have registered to benefit from the programme since 2022, with 2,089 establishments receiving wage support.

 

He also said that participating establishments reported a satisfaction rate of 96.7 per cent with the programme’s support.

 

He identified the sectors employing the highest number of beneficiaries as private education, accommodation and food services, manufacturing, administrative and support services and logistics, wholesale and retail trade, and human health and social work activities.

 

Shammout said that establishments benefiting most from the programme were concentrated in Amman, followed by Irbid, Zarqa, Balqa, and Karak governorates, attributing the distribution to the number of establishments and economic activity in each area.

 

He also revealed that around 22,000 young men and women received training through the programme, either on the job or through employability skills and occupational safety and health training.