His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday honoured several workers for their contribution to the Kingdom’s development process at a ceremony marking Labour Day.

King Abdullah met with 130 workers over a lunch banquet at Basman Palace and spoke to them about several issues, including the challenges they face. The King voiced appreciation for the workers and their dedication to work, which he said “represents a model of good citizenship”.

On May 1, the King addressed Jordan’s workers on the occasion of Labour Day, urging them to focus on entrepreneurship in their professional lives to help build and develop Jordan. In this year’s Labour Day letter, His Majesty said the Kingdom has a generation of creative and pioneering workers who can turn their ideas into exemplary projects and businesses.

His Majesty said Jordanian workers have built a reputation for the Kingdom as a modern country whose qualified labour force is a “main ingredient of the Jordanian culture of excellence” and “one of the foremost characteristics of Jordanian identity”.

For their part, the labourers hailed the King’s commitment to enhancing workers’ living conditions, adding that global social and economic challenges warrant hard work and dedication.

During the ceremony, worker Malak Akar, who works as a production line coordinator at a clothing company in Southern Shuneh, delivered a poem on the need for youth to work with their utmost potential and defy the culture of shame.