The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Non-Profit Companies in Jordan: A Socio-Legal Study

Abstract

Since 2020, the novel Corona pandemic had negatively affected the people's economic situation in Jordan. The Jordanian government procedures to contains the spread of the virus from movement restriction, border closures, and lookdown have forced companies to shut down their businesses completely or partly and lay off workers or reduce their remuneration. Some of these companies that had been negatively affected was nonprofit Companies. Nonprofit Companies in Jordan have faced a decrease in financial returns as a result of the reduced amount of donations and an increase in demand of the services they provide, especially those that provide health services. As a result, non-profit companies operating in Jordan had adopted new approaches and mechanism of working to survive and to still be relevant in the Jordanian society. This research article primarily focuses on the impact of the Corona pandemic on non-profit companies operating in Jordan in terms of financials, strategies and the impact of the Jordanian defense law on the situation of the labor working in these institutions. The research has reached to several results that highlight the impact of the Corona pandemic. Corona pandemic had and still has a significant impact on non-profit companies from an economic and legal point of view.

Suicide Trends in Jordan in Correlation With the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Forensic Medicine Perspective

“…In Arabic communities, social life is a major determinant of the Arabic cultural norm; hence, it is expected that the lockdown left people feeling lonely, uncertain, and culturally perplexed [ 18 ]. Besides, COVID-19 resulted in massive economic drawbacks which increased the levels of economic pressure, particularly on vulnerable women, who could hardly withstand any additional impoverishment, increasing rates of domestic violence [ 19 ], and job cuts [ 20 , 21 ]. Needless to say that COVID-19 has been linked to mental health repercussions [ 22 , 23 ].…”