The formation of a specialized wage committee by the end of this month/the representatives consult in the budget review

In an interview with the economic reporter of Fars news agency, Ayat Asadi said about the latest news from the Supreme Labor Council to determine the minimum wage for workers next year, he said: The meeting of the Supreme Labor Council has not yet been held to determine the minimum wage for workers next year and it is according to the agreement. Meetings of the Supreme Labor Council should be held at the end of every month, but they have not yet announced the date of the January meeting.

The representative of the workers in the Supreme Labor Council in response to the question, have specialized wage committees under the Supreme Labor Council been formed? He said: The specialized committees have not started their activities yet, and in the previous meeting of the Supreme Labor Council, the issue was raised that specialized wage committees should be formed quickly, and the Minister of Labor verbally ordered to form a committee in the next meeting, i.e. this month, of the Supreme Labor Council. Labor wages should be formed.

Asadi, in response to the question, has the livelihood basket of the working family been specified? He said: the livelihood basket has not yet been determined in the specialized wage committee, and the two topics of the livelihood basket of the average working household should be discussed and discussed in the specialized committees, and the inflation rate this year should also be discussed. The next year’s minimum wage for workers will be determined based on these two important components, i.e. the current year’s inflation rate and the average cost of the labor household’s livelihood basket.

He stated: In the upcoming meeting of the Supreme Labor Council, which will be held at the end of January, we will determine the members of the labor, employer and government representatives to attend the specialized wage committees, so that the specialized meetings will be held as soon as possible.

Regarding the components of determining the minimum wage of workers, he said: two important components of the current year’s inflation rate and the livelihood basket of the working family are based on Article 41 of the Labor Law and its two notes.

Esadi said: This year, the government has made changes regarding its representatives in the specialized wage committee and the Supreme Labor Council. Previously, Mr. Dost Ali was a representative of the government, who was a sociologist and knowledgeable about labor issues, and this year he is the minister of economy. Government representatives in the Supreme Labor Council have been added.

The representative of the workers in the Supreme Labor Council on whether the inclusion of the inflation rate in the minimum wage does not increase inflation expectations? He said: The labor community is ready not to have any increase in their wages for the next year, but on the condition that the prices of goods and services received by the workers return to the rates of the previous year, because the increase in wages is the result of inflation, and the wages of the workers themselves are a follower. Inflation changes, that is, for the next year’s wages, they check the previous year’s inflation and measure the next year’s wages based on the current year’s inflation, so the wages of salaried workers and workers are always behind inflation.

He added: Last year, the government promised that if it removed the preferential exchange rate for basic goods, it would not allow the price of other goods to rise, but in practice, this happened after the removal of the preferential exchange rate, and the market for most goods and services increased, so The workforce itself is always involved in inflation, and according to one of the experts, inflation is the celebration of wealth and the misery of the common people; A working family wants to buy a refrigerator, it provides money from savings, but then it sees that the price of the refrigerator has increased in the market and it does not have the power to buy that consumer product.

The representative of the workers in the Supreme Labor Council said that the government itself, on the one hand, says that it collects the society’s liquidity to control inflation, and on the other hand, says that it wants to create a boom in the economy in order to deal with the recession. For example, in the next year’s budget bill, on the one hand, the government has said that the salaries of employees will increase by 20%, on the other hand, according to some experts, the expected inflation in the next year’s budget bill is up to 40%, or on the one hand, it has said about the income of trade unions. Up to 3.5 million Tomans is exempt from tax, but how can a union activist make a living with this amount.

He said: Parliamentarians should invite the people who are related to the government’s budget bill and invite the opinions of labor representatives, employers, and even industrialists’ representatives in industrial issues and use their advice for a better approval of the budget bill.

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