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Iran Lab Expo 2025 opens in Tehran, showcasing homegrown technologies

The 13th Exhibition of Equipment, Laboratory Materials and Advanced Test (IranLabExpo) opened on Saturday with the aim of strengthening Iran’s knowledge-based production and advancing domestic scientific and technological capabilities.
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Publish Date:13/December/2025 | 12:55

Iranian Employment Lawyers to Protect Workers’ Rights

Labor laws play a crucial role in safeguarding the rights and well-being of workers. Iranian Employment and labor Lawyers, with their dedication and expertise, stand at the forefront of ensuring that these rights are not just theoretical but are upheld in practice. Let's explore the essential role of labor lawyers in protecting workers' rights and advocating for fair employment practices.
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Publish Date:17/February/2024 | 21:13

Ministry Examines Housing Expenses in Fiscal 2019-20

EghtesadOnline: The Statistics Center of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare has reviewed housing expenses of Iranian urban and rural households in the last fiscal year (March 2019-20) in a new report.
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Publish Date:28/February/2021 | 19:48

Multiple Jobholding on the Rise

EghtesadOnline: The number of people who worked two jobs at the same time rose from 726,000 in the year ending March 2018 to 834,000 in the year ending March 2020, latest data released by the Statistical Center of Iran and the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare show.
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Publish Date:13/February/2021 | 19:40

Labor Ministry Official: Jobless Population at 2.4 Million

EghtesadOnline: The population of the unemployed in Iran currently stands at 2.4 million, 40% of whom are university graduates, according to the director general of Employment and Policymaking Department of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.
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Publish Date:02/February/2021 | 16:03

Labor Ministry Rolls Out New Virus Loans Worth Over $300m

EghtesadOnline: Those engaged in transportation, tourism and handicraft industries, as well as sports and culture and arts will receive a new round of coronavirus loans worth upwards of 80,000 billion rials ($307 million), says Isa Mansouri, deputy minister of cooperatives, labor and social welfare.
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Publish Date:01/January/2021 | 17:33

Marked Decline in People Filing for Unemployment Benefits

EghtesadOnline: The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare has registered a 94% decrease in the number of people filing for unemployment benefits during the month ending May 20 compared with the month ending March 19, according to an official with the ministry.
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Publish Date:28/June/2020 | 08:53

Workers Struggling to Make Ends Meet

EghtesadOnline: With current wages, workers run out of money only 10 days into the month, says Ali Aslani, a member of Supreme Labor Council.
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Publish Date:28/September/2020 | 18:54

Cooperatives Ministry: Gov’t Debts to SSO Hit $11.2 Billion by March

EghtesadOnline: The government’s debts to the Social Security Organization, Iran's biggest social insurance company that provides coverage to wage-earners and salaried workers as well as self-employed persons, amounted to 2,944 trillion rials ($11.2 billion) by the end of last fiscal year (March 19, 2020), the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare reported.
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Publish Date:16/September/2020 | 24:14

6m Jobs Hit Hard by Virus

EghtesadOnline: The coronavirus has hit hard at an estimated 2.8 million businesses and six million jobs in Iran, according to the director general of Policymaking and Job Department of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.
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Publish Date:01/September/2020 | 11:31

Council Agrees to Double Housing Allowance of Workers

EghtesadOnline: The Supreme Labor Council has agreed to raise workers’ housing allowance from 1 million rials ($5.6) to 3 million rials ($17), the cooperatives, labor and social welfare minister said.
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Publish Date:08/June/2020 | 08:12

$75m Deposited in Unemployment Insurance Fund

EghtesadOnline: A total of 12,860 billion rials ($75 million) have been deposited into the Social Security Organization’s Unemployment Insurance Fund, according to the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.
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Publish Date:18/May/2020 | 05:57

Iran Gov't Continues Recruitment Despite Labor Oversupply

EghtesadOnline: Vice President of Administrative and Recruitment Affairs Jamshid Ansari says 35,000-40,000 new recruitments will be needed in the current fiscal year (March 2020-21) to meet the needs of government organizations, companies and ministries.
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Publish Date:16/May/2020 | 05:35

Child Laborers Increasing in Iran

EghtesadOnline: The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare’s Statistics and Strategic Data Center has recently published a special report on child population, literacy and labor in Iran.
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Publish Date:22/June/2019 | 11:44