Uninsured workers still involved in negligence of the Ministry of Labor – Mehr News Agency | Iran and world’s news

According to the Mehr reporter, according to Article one Labor Law, All employers, workers, workshops and production, industrial, service and agricultural enterprises are covered by the Labor Law, and according to Article 148 of the Labor Law, employers of workshops subject to this law are obliged to insure single workers in accordance with the Social Security Law. Act on their own. On the other hand, according to paragraph A of Article 4 of the Social Security Law, all persons who work for any wage or salary are subject to the Social Security Law. Therefore, every worker (subject to the Social Security Act) has the right to be covered by insurance from the first day of employment.

The issue of workers’ insurance is so important that, according to the Social Security Insurance Organization, hourly wage workers are also covered by compulsory social security insurance. The method of calculating the hourly wage and the in-service benefits shall also be calculated and paid in proportion to the working hours referred to in Article 39. Also, even if the worker and the employer in the private sector agree not to be insured, this agreement is void and the employer will eventually be convicted and fined.

Uninsured workers are deprived of the benefits of the labor law

However, employers often do not pay attention to the issue of insurance for reasons such as gaining more financial benefits, paying lower wages, as well as non-payment of workers’ years and holidays; But the important thing is that, perhaps for an employer, workers are not insured profitable But this does not have happy consequences for the working class, because not only does it make it difficult for workers to retire, but it also makes it difficult to identify these people when there are unexpected and unexpected events. Oh you Occurs, interrupts.

In fact, a worker who does not have insurance not only does not enjoy the benefits of insurance, as in health-related fields, but also works for many years. جزو His work history does not count and he is deprived of both when retiring or needing unemployment insurance; Here we can refer to workers as workers Under the stairs And are known to work in micro and small units, which are largely deprived of the minimum of labor law and insurance and salaries approved by the Supreme Labor Council, and sometimes even have no place in the statistics related to workers.

Even when the government supported workers because of the outbreak of the Corona virus, we saw that uninsured workers did not fit into the protection categories and did not receive unemployment insurance; At the time, it was reported that 6 million people had been affected by the coronavirus outbreak, of which 2.8 million were uninsured.

It is noteworthy, however, that the previous government’s Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, Mohammad Shariatmadari, announced in February last year that “informal workers are on the rise, and the corona has raised the number that we need to rectify.” We currently have 7 million officially uninsured workers. “That means we have identified 7 million workers who are workers and work but are not members of Social Security.” But no specific action was taken to identify these people in the previous government.

Statistics released by the Parliamentary Research Center also show that 60% of employees The country is uninsured, and these people are several times more likely to be affected by the outbreak of the coronavirus than the number of insured employees اند.

According to the table above, 450,000 people have been added to this number this spring, which has grown by about 3.4% in all sectors of the economy. This figure is 10% for the industrial sector and 2% for the service sector.

However, as mentioned, the first article of the labor law states that all workers are subject to this law; This means that if a person is working somewhere, he must be covered by insurance.

The Ministry of Labor refuses to perform its legal duties

In this regard, Nasser Chamani, a former member of the Supreme Labor Council, spoke say Mehr stated: Mr. Shariatmadar, the former Minister of Labor, had announced that we have 7 million workers without insurance. If this statistic is correct, why was no action taken in the Twelfth Government to insure these people? The Ministry of Labor and the Social Security Administration did not fulfill their legal duties.

He added: “The current Minister of Labor, Mr. Abdolmaleki, repeated Mr. Shariatmadari’s words when he was introduced to the parliament, but unfortunately nothing has happened in the last 6 months and the Ministry of Labor has not had any input on the issue of uninsured workers.”

Chamani said that inspectors from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security should be consulted regularly بابرنامه Identify uninsured workers in workshops and units; They launched a comprehensive labor relations system to record workers’ contracts. If the monitoring was accurate, why has no action been taken to identify uninsured workers?

The labor activist stated: The duty of the inspectors of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security is to visit different areas and workshops to identify the workers, but unfortunately they are not doing their legal duty properly.

The need to set up a system to identify uninsured workers

“If the Ministry of Labor and the Social Security Organization do not want to send the inspector directly to the workshop, they should design a system so that uninsured workers can send a text message to the authorities and inform them,” Chamani said. Self-declaration Will happen.

He emphasized: a worker who does not have insurance can not use any facilities and does not even have a pension; That is, one works for years but ultimately cannot enjoy the benefits of labor law, which is an injustice to the worker. The Ministry of Labor must intervene without delay.