Amendment of the bylaws to facilitate worker-employer relations by order of the Supreme Labor Council

Alihossein Raitifard, in an interview with the economic reporter of Fars News Agency, in response to the question that the meeting of the Supreme Labor Council was supposed to be held at the end of Azar, and was this meeting held? He stated: The Supreme Labor Council meeting was held on Tuesday, December 29 with the presence of social partners (workers and employers) and the Minister of Labor Cooperation and Social Welfare.

He added: The Higher Social Security Research Institute presented a research work to determine the regional wage criteria in the meeting of the Supreme Labor Council, although the report has not yet been concluded, it was decided to complete and finalize this report and present it in the next meetings of the Supreme Labor Council

Deputy Minister of Labor Relations of the Ministry of Cooperatives emphasized: The meeting of the Supreme Labor Council was held with the presence of the tripartite partners of representatives of workers, employers and the government, with the presence of Mr. Solat Morteza, Minister of Labor, and this is the second meeting during the current minister’s tenure, in which specialized topics related to labor law were discussed. And the workers will be reviewed and not just the minimum wage for the next year.

Raitifred continued: The meetings of the Supreme Labor Council are held once a month, but in March, the number of meetings will be increased to determine the minimum wage for the workers in the next year in order to reach the result.

He added: One of the agendas of the Supreme Labor Council is to revise and review the regulations of the labor law, including the regulations of Article 164 of the labor law, which discuss the membership of labor and employer representatives in dispute resolution boards and the determination of labor and employer claims.

The deputy of labor relations of the Ministry of Cooperatives said: the regulations related to the labor law were compiled in 1987, which now need to be revised and revised, and in this context, it was requested from the social partners and representatives of workers and employers that the regulations of the labor law that were compiled in the seventies Some of them need to be revised, and with the priority of these regulations, they will be presented and amended in the Supreme Labor Council and will be approved by the Minister of Labor and Cooperation.

Stating that the Supreme Labor Council has other duties in addition to determining the minimum wage of workers, Raitifard said: One of these issues is the amendment of regulations that are amended to facilitate relations between workers and employers.

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