“Black field/ A poem by Jamshid Azizi”

The work of poetry is over, it is time to read the elegy. مرثیه می‌خواند And he sang a lament for us, and how long will he continue to sing this lament, he sings a lament. وله می‌آید Not everything is flowers and nightingales! Bullets come out of the barrel of a gun. You don’t […]...

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Conversation with Ali Khodayi, Vice President of the Supreme Council of Islamic Councils / Farzaneh Goli

Worker, is considered one of the most complex elements in the production process. Although workers receive lower wages compared to skilled labor, they play a vital role in the economic and production cycle. This is while they are clearly faced with issues such as delayed payment of wages. What causes workers to usually face difficult […]...

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Tripartism in labor law and determination of minimum wage in Iran; from dream to reality / Alireza Goodarzi

At the opening ceremony of the construction of the International Labour Organization building in June 1926, three golden keys were unveiled to unlock three locks. These three golden keys were symbolic representations of an important principle in labor rights that remains a golden rule: tripartism. Years of effort to achieve fair working conditions had shown […]...

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Living wage and struggle for survival/ Amir Aghaei

The struggle for survival is a term that is less used in today’s world and in the field of economy, but for workers, employers, and even the government, conditions have become so difficult and exhausting that they must fight for their survival and continuity of their activities. Workers and their families are worried about their […]...

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Ineffective criteria in determining minimum wage/ Ehsan Haghani

Work and using one’s own hands to provide for their own and their family’s needs has been one of the most common ways of life for humans since ancient times. The emergence of the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of industries, along with the increase in demand for labor on one hand and the effort […]...

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Be careful, workers are sacrificing themselves. / Pedram Tahsini

According to the inflation reported by the Statistical Center of Iran and the Central Bank, we have extracted the monthly cost of living for a family of 3.3 members until the end of Azar month 1402 (December 2023) to be 23 million and 500 thousand tomans. This was stated by Mohsen Bagheri, the deputy head […]...

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People have become the hidden victims of “low wages”/ Hormoz Sharifian.

Investigating the approved minimum wage for workers in 1403, still puts this hard-working spectrum of Iranian society at risk of countless social dangers, the headline of which is “poverty and misery”. This amount of wages, even with the sudden rise of the “dollar price” against the “destroyed national currency” – which intensified even more with […]...

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The Negative Effects of Low Wages on the Mental Health of Workers/ Saghar Rahimi

“Father didn’t give bread, father gave life. He had been absent for a long time; sometimes for temporary and difficult jobs in big cities, sleeping in cars and parks, and sometimes for months-long detentions in prison for protesting low wages, delayed payments, and harsh working conditions that had pushed him to the edge and eventually […]...

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From determining wages around the world to suppressing wages in Iran / Morteza Hamoonian

The impact of minimum wage and its determination methods on various dimensions of countries’ economies is undeniable, and for this reason, different countries deal with this issue in different ways, according to their economic policies. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has a specific definition for “minimum wage.” According to this organization, minimum wage is the […]...

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Governance, the people want poverty / Fariborz Kalantari

Although more than a month has passed since the first days of the year 1403, many workers and employees still do not know exactly how much their monthly salary will be for the new year. In the last days of the year 1402, when the minimum wage for workers was approved with a 35% increase, […]...

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How did retirees and other wage earners spend last year? / Amir Javaheri Langroudi

Let me start my speech with two questions: How did the year 1402 pass for all members of society, including women, teachers, workers in various sectors (services, production, industry, mines, and agriculture), nurses, retired military personnel, steelworkers, social security recipients, and all wage and salary earners? In other words, how did the dual cycle of […]...

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The departure of the workers’ table with the approval of the Supreme Council of Labor / Atafeh Daneshgar

The result of the negotiations between the three groups of representatives from the working society, employers, and the government in the meeting of the Supreme Council of Labor led to a 35.3% increase in the minimum wage for workers. However, the representatives of the workers, who demanded a 42% increase in wages to account for […]...

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