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As criticism over the low increase in the minimum wage in Iran continues, a labor representative on the Supreme Labor Council has expressed dissatisfaction with the amount of this increase.
Ayat Asadi has stated that we, the labor representatives, were not and are not satisfied with the approved wage.
In the final hours of last year, the Iranian government, after much negotiation, increased the minimum wage by 27 percent. The government’s proposal was initially a 20 to 23 percent increase, but with pressure from labor union representatives, this amount was raised.
Labor union representatives say this rate of increase does not align with the official inflation rate of about 50 percent.
According to the new resolution, the minimum wage for workers in the year 1402 has increased from four million and 179 thousand tomans last year to five million and 308 thousand tomans this year.
Meanwhile, according to official statistics, the poverty line for a family of four last year was 77 million tomans for the whole of Iran and 147 million tomans in the city of Tehran.