Workers' wage negotiations begin next year
The second wage meeting of the Supreme Labor Council to negotiate the next year's minimum wage will start at another time.
According to the International Iranian Stone Exhibition, in the first meeting, the Ministry of Labor presented a report in two parts on how to determine the livelihood basket of working families in the Committee on Wages and Inflation of Consumer and Food Goods and Expenses of Employers and Manufacturing Companies.
This report, despite showing that the living expenses of working families have increased compared to last year, but showed a decrease in the production costs of employers compared to the previous year.
At the first wage meeting of the Supreme Labor Council, the employers' representatives re-introduced the issue of determining the regional wage, which was not accepted due to the time remaining until the end of the year and the impossibility of reviewing, and a strategic committee was appointed to review the issue and the research center. The Social Security Organization should be in charge of preparing a report in this regard and the representative of the worker and the employer should express their views and opinions in the mentioned working group.
The second wage session of the Supreme Labor Council to review and determine next year's minimum wage begins at a time when many experts, labor activists and labor officials are concerned about the need to reduce the gap between the minimum wage and livelihood, given the cost of living for working families. Workers are pushing for next year.
According to them, according to the announcement of the cost of living basket of workers, increase in prices of food items and basic goods, exchange rate fluctuations and the announcement of 10 million Tomans of livelihood line by the Central Bank as the official source of statistics, workers' wages next year should be consistent with the facts Determine the day of the community and cover most of their living expenses.
In its last meeting, the Wage Committee announced the monthly cost of living for working families of 6 million and 895 thousand Tomans, which is only limited to food and beverages, and including treatment, housing and rent costs to more than ten million Tomans. arrives.
According to this report, last year the wage committee set the cost of the workers 'living basket at 4 million and 960 thousand tomans, based on which the representatives of the labor groups are trying to compensate the difference of two million tomans in the cost of the workers' living basket in determining next year's wage.
* ISNA
