Katamine highlights effect of refugee crisis on labour market

AMMAN — Countries whose markets were directly affected by the refugee crisis should resort to untraditional frameworks to regulate their labour markets, Labour Minister Nidal Katamine said Sunday.

Speaking at the 43rd Arab Conference in Cairo, the minister linked the recovery of labour markets in Jordan — and other Arab countries affected by regional political and security crises — with uprooting the factors that caused these crises, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

He added that a country like Jordan, whose economy is suffering from the repercussions of hosting Syrian refugees, and receives little international support, will find itself compelled to integrate Syrian refugees into its labour market within a balanced plan.