Iran Labor Code (English)
Labor Law
CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL DEFINITIONS AND PRINCIPLES
Article 1: All employers, workers, workshops and production, industrial, services and agricultural institutes shall be obligated to observe the provisions of this Law.
Article 2: For the purpose of this Law, a worker is one who works in any capacity against receipt of remuneration including wages, salary, share of profit, and other benefits at the request of the employer.
Article 3: An Employer is a natural person or a juridical entity at whose request and account a worker works against receipt of remuneration. The directors, officials and in general, all those individuals who are assigned with the task of administering workshops shall be deemed to be representatives of the employer. An employer shall be responsible for all commitments made by the said representatives towards workers. Should the employer’s representative undertake any commitment outside the scope of his powers and such commitments shall not be acceptable to the employer, he will be responsible towards the employer.
Article 4:Workshop is a place like industrial, agricultural, mining, construction,transportation, passenger transport, services, commercial and production institutes, public premises and their likes, where the worker in which performs his work at the request of the employer or his representative.
All facilities, belonging to a workshop such as prayer-room, canteen, cooperative shop,nursery, kindergarten, clinic, bath, vocational training institute, reading room, literacy classes and other training centers as well as premises of the Islamic council and society,and Workers’ Mobilization Unit, gymnasium, and means of transportation and their likes,with due regard to the type of the work shall be considered as parts of the workshop.
Article 5: All workers, employers, representatives thereof, and trainees, and also the workshops shall be governed by provisions of this Law.
Article 6: By virtue of Clause 4 of
Article 43, Clause 6 of
Article 2, and
Articles 19, 20
and 28 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, it shall be prohibited to compel individuals into performance of a specific work, and to exploit them. The people of Iran,of any tribe and ethnic group, shall enjoy equal rights. Colour, race, language and their likes shall not be treated as a privilege, as all people, whether male or female shall be equally protected by law. Every person has the right to choose his desired occupation provided that it is not contrary to Islam and public interests, and does not infringe upon others’ rights.