28 Articles of the Labor Law Set to Be Eliminated

In a new offensive on labor, the semi-official Islamic Labor Council (ILC) has revealed plans to emasculate the labor law in favor of the employer.

In an interview with the Iranian Labor News Agency, Aliakbar Eivazi, a board member at the Tehran Islamic Labor Councils Coordination Center, has reported new proposed changes to the Iranian Labor Law.
A draft of the proposed labor law has been evidently received by ILC from the Ministry of Labor in which, to quote Eivaz, “all there was to see (in the draft) was the gutting of workers’ gains”.

Maintaining that the essence of the labor law is the protection of labor, he said: “In the modifications submitted by the Labor Ministry, 28 articles have been changed—in effect, all workers’ benefits have been axed in those 28 items.”

Eivazi added: “In the draft new labor law, the workers’ holidays have been reduced to 20 days; workers organizations are to have no say in lay-offs; leave of absence for bereavement are to be eliminated; and the forty percent advance for special work shifts and other hardships will be no longer.” The official of the usually passive ILC went on: “If you don’t defend your trade rights, the whole labor law will be devastated.”
Asked why his labor outfit has remained silent in the face of wholesale changes to the labor law, Eivazi merely said “there is no silence, we are evaluating the options”.

Source: Iran Labor Report