The impact of the declaration of a state of emergency in Jordan due to the Corona pandemic on the right of citizens to work

Abstract

This study aims to show the extent to which the right of Jordanian citizens to work has been impacted as a result of the spread of the Corona epidemic, which in turn led to the disruption and reduction of this right significantly in light of the issuance of defence orders that came as a direct result of declaring a state of emergency based on the text of Article (124) of the Jordanian Constitution for the year (1952) and its amendments. This article granted the Defense Law the authority to take the necessary measures and procedures, including the power of violating the normal laws of the state by those who have the authority to do so according to the law in order to secure the defense of the homeland.  However, the balance between protecting the rights of citizens to work established by a constitutional text and defending the homeland in exceptional circumstances, including epidemics, is a very important and complex matter, especially in light of emergency conditions. This is what leads us to talk about the most important characteristic of human rights, which is the inability of misfeasance, as the state does not have the right to allege not protecting a right or marginalizing it because of any emergency circumstance it is exposed to, as human rights are considered one and indivisible unit.