Extension of Workers’ Wage Suppression
The government and employers were not even willing to raise the minimum wage based on the official inflation rate, resulting in the minimum wage for the next year being half of the per capita poverty line of 2021 and 10 million tomans less than the minimum livelihood basket.
As predicted, the government and employers, in the absence of true representatives of the workers, once again imposed wage suppression on the working community, widening the gap between wages and expenses.
In the early hours of March 20th, the Supreme Labor Council finally announced the minimum wage for the year 2023 after a six-hour session.
The previous session of the Supreme Labor Council on March 17th ended without a result after 15 hours, with worker representatives stating that the government insisted on a 20 to 24 percent wage increase, and employers threatened that if wages were increased based on the workers’ livelihood basket, more workers would be laid off.