EghtesadOnline: Iran's unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2021) stood at 9.7%, registering a 0.9% decline compared with the corresponding period of the year before, according to the latest data released by the Statistical Center of Iran.

EghtesadOnline: Economic experts have commended the monetary and banking measures taken by the Central Bank of Iran to augment transparency and stability in the foreign exchange market, emphasizing that such measures should continue along with other supplemental policies.

EghtesadOnline: In Iran, private-sector wage discussions and bargaining between the representatives of employees and employers, as well as the government, which constitute the Supreme Labor Council, to agree upon the pay raise for each year usually start in mid-December and reach its peak in March.