Purpose

In several recent judgments, the Jordanian Court of Cassation has found that using arbitration to resolve individual labor disputes is null. The aforementioned approach which constituted a departure from the well-established former approach that the same court has followed has been confirmed by the new amendments that the Jordanian Arbitration Act has seen in 2018. In view of this, this study aims to highlight and critically analyze the above-mentioned court’s decisions and the new amendments pertaining to arbitration clauses from a Jordanian Labor Law perspective and the distinct characteristics rooted in it to find out the extent to which applying arbitration in such a context is acceptable or not.

Design/methodology/approach

To examine how effective are the approaches followed by the Jordanian courts and the legislator in ruling the unacceptability of arbitration clauses in individual labor contracts and to observe to what extent it has been successful in this relation, this work makes use of the secondary data available in this regard as the main method to complete such an examination and this includes the relevant different legislations, court’s decisions and jurisprudence. By critically analyzing and comparing the various data contained in these secondary data sources, this work will identify the problems associated with such approaches and accordingly bring up different recommendations and conclusions.

Findings

While the current author do largely agree with the conclusions that have been reached recently by the aforementioned courts, it is submitted that these courts and the legislator have not dealt with such a matter in an adequate and comprehensive manner as they should have spilled more ink on this area of law. Furthermore, this work argues that while the principles that necessitate arbitration shall be respected, the distinct characteristics of the labor law warrant a more careful approach than actually followed by the competent authorities.

Originality/value

Taking into consideration the recent different approaches followed by the Jordanian courts and legislator in ruling the unacceptability of arbitration clauses in individual labor contracts, it would not be a surprise to say that there is no comprehensive and updated scholarly work which has either examined such different approaches or addressed its implications. Accordingly, this work derives its originality and value from being the first and most updated work that examines and addresses such a thorny matter.

中文翻译：

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个人劳动争议在多大程度上可以接受仲裁？从约旦法律的角度进行批判

目的

在最近的几项判决中，约旦最高上诉法院认定使用仲裁解决个人劳资纠纷是无效的。2018 年《约旦仲裁法》的新修正案确认了上述方法与同一法院所遵循的既定的前方法背离。有鉴于此，本研究旨在突出并批判性地分析上述法院的裁决和有关仲裁条款的新修正案，从约旦劳动法的角度及其植根于其中的鲜明特征，以找出在这种情况下适用仲裁的程度可以接受与否。

设计/方法/方法

为了检查约旦法院和立法者在裁定个别劳动合同中仲裁条款的不可接受性时所采用的方法的有效性，并观察它在这方面的成功程度，这项工作利用了可用的二手数据这是完成此类审查的主要方法，包括相关的不同立法、法院判决和判例。通过批判性地分析和比较这些二手数据源中包含的各种数据，这项工作将确定与此类方法相关的问题，并相应地提出不同的建议和结论。

发现

虽然目前作者在很大程度上同意上述法院最近得出的结论，但认为这些法院和立法者没有以充分和全面的方式处理这样的问题，因为他们应该在这个领域的法律。此外，这项工作认为，虽然需要仲裁的原则应得到尊重，但劳动法的独特特征需要采取比主管当局实际遵循的更谨慎的方法。

原创性/价值

考虑到最近约旦法院和立法者在裁定个别劳动合同中仲裁条款的不可接受性时所采用的不同方法，可以毫不奇怪地说，没有全面和最新的学术工作来研究这些不同的方法。或解决其影响。因此，这项工作的独创性和价值来自于检查和解决如此棘手问题的第一个也是最新的工作。