Workers do not agree with setting a minimum wage for 1400

The Supreme Labor Council approved the minimum wage of 1,400, a 39% increase of 4,190,707 Tomans. Previously, the council's wage committee had set the monthly cost of workers' livelihoods at 6,895,000 Tomans.

The third session of the Supreme Labor Council ended on Sunday, March 14, with the determination of the minimum wage for 1400. In this session, the amount of the wage increase was determined.

According to IRNA, based on the resolutions of this meeting, the minimum wage and other wage components were increased by 39 percent for minimum wage earners. Thus, the wage for a worker with 1.3 children, including a 600,000-toman bonus, 140,000-toman annuities, and a 450,000-toman housing allowance, reached 4,190,707,077 rials.

With a 39 percent increase, the minimum daily wage for wage earners was set at 885,165 rials and the monthly wage base was set at 26,562,900 rials.

Previously, the fifth meeting of the Supreme Labor Council's wage committee was held on February 22 at the Ministry of Labor with the participation of representatives of the labor, employer, and government groups. This meeting set the amount of 6,895,000 Tomans as the monthly cost of the workers' livelihood basket.

According to ISNA, workers' representatives in the Supreme Labor Council estimated the cost of workers' livelihoods at 9 million tomans and announced that this figure would reach 11 million tomans in large cities like Tehran, while employers believed it was 8 million tomans. Finally, in a meeting on March 25, members of the wage committee reached an agreement on this figure after summing up figures, reports, and statistical tables.

According to labor officials, the figure of 6,895,000 Tomans is far from the estimate made by the labor group and is not even close to the figure desired by the employers; however, it seems that given the limited time left to determine the minimum wage for workers next year, the members of the wage committee agreed on this figure and accepted it.

The wage committee set the amount of 6 million and 895 thousand tomans as the cost of the workers' livelihood basket, while the Central Bank had previously announced the livelihood line at 10 million tomans.

Now, the Supreme Labor Council has also rejected the opinion of the council's wage committee and has approved the minimum wage at about two million tomans less.

Labor groups are insisting on their minimum demands and demanding wage increases in line with the cost of living.

Source: DW