A labor member of the Supreme Council expressed that we were not and are not satisfied with the approved wage increase.
While criticism of the low increase in the minimum wage in Iran continues, a labor member of the Supreme Labor Council has expressed dissatisfaction with the amount of this increase.
Ayat Asadi said that we, the labor representatives, were not and are not at all satisfied with the approved wage.
The Iranian government, in the last hours of the previous year, after much negotiation, increased the minimum wage by 27 percent. The government’s proposal was initially a 20 to 23 percent increase, which was raised under pressure from labor union representatives.
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 2023 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.