EghtesadOnline: The second meeting of the Supreme Labor Council on setting the next Iranian year’s (March 2017-18) minimum wage for nearly 13 million Iranian workers will be held today at the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.

EghtesadOnline: Some 300,000 work permits have been issued for foreign nationals in Iran, according to an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare.

EghtesadOnline: Aryan’s timing was impeccable: Months after he returned to Iran from college in Canada, job offers started to pile up. A decade of economic sanctions was drawing to an end in early 2016 as he settled back home, prompting a frenzied chase for Iran’s small pool of white-collar professionals.

EghtesadOnline: The Supreme Labor Council agreed last week to determine the living wage and consider it as a base for setting the minimum wage next year.