IRNA Irans First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri said on Tuesday that the 12th government under President Hassan Rouhani has created some 3.5 million jobs. Jahangiri made the remarks during a ceremony in the Iranian capital to mark the National Day of Industry, Mine and Trade. He said that the country is facing arbitrary, inhumane and illegal ...

Financial Tribune - Sixty percent of jobs in Iran lack health and retirement benefits, which are also not entitled to government support offered to businesses during the coronavirus crisis. According to a report by the research arm of the Iranian Parliament, Majlis Research Center, 61.7% of working women and 59.4% of working men were employed in ...

Financial Tribune - The services sector employed 50.3% of the Iranian employed population last year, whereas industrial and agricultural sectors provided 32% and 17.7% of jobs, respectively Irans unemployment rate stood at 10.7% in the last Iranian year (March 2019-20), indicating a 1.5% decline compared with the year before, the latest report by ...

AFP | Lucie Peytermann: From the hustle and bustle of a startup, Fereshteh Kasrai now works from home, like many Iranian women fighting to keep hard-won tech jobs as the coronavirus outbreak stirs uncertainty. Iran says the COVID-19 disease has claimed more than 5,200 lives and infected close to 83,000 over the past two months, in the Middle East's ...

Financial Tribune - One of the main objectives of the government in the next Iranian year (starting March 20, 2020) is to boost domestic production and employment. As one of the appendixes to the newly unveiled budget bill suggests, the Iranian government is planning to create close to one million jobs by shoring up main sectors driving economic ...

SHANA Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh said that the best support for domestic companies and manufacturers was to provide them with a job market, saying: "We need investment to create jobs." Speaking during a visit to the Oil Turbo Compressor Group (OTC) on Monday, Mr. Zangeneh told reporters OTC was launched in 2000 and had ...

Financial Tribune - The unemployment rate was 11.8% in urban areas (2.42 million people) and 6.6% in rural areas (466,012 people) Irans unemployment rate, the proportion of jobless population of ages 15 years and above, stood at 10.5% in the second quarter of the current Iranian year (June 22-Sept. 22), indicating a 1.8% decrease compared with the ...

Tehran Times Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation has allocated 4 trillion rials (nearly $95 million) to create jobs for the financially struggling individuals residing in the northeastern province of Khorasan Razavi, the provincial foundations head has announced. Out of 2 million families living in the province, some 200,000 are covered by the foundation,...

Financial Tribune - Of the 23.8 million people employed in Iran in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2019), 12.9 million or 54.2% stayed for fewer than 10 years in their main jobs. Job duration for around six million employees (25.3%) was between 10 and 20 years, the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfares Statistics and Strategic ...

Tehran Times Imam Khomeini Relief Foundation has generated over 1.5m job opportunities for those financially struggling since the past 7 years, Hojatollah Abdolmaleki, the Foundations deputy director has announced. Job generation for the underprivileged is among the most important and tough responsibilities of the Foundation, he stated, YJC reported ...

Financial Tribune- Rural communities accounted for 25% of all new jobs created in Iran in the last fiscal year (March 2018-19). According to Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Isa Mansouri, the government allocated 73 trillion rials (about $510 million) to generate employment in rural areas last year for creating 188,000 new ...

Financial Tribune - Atrilateral agreement based on the government's urban renewal initiative is expected to create 300,000 direct and indirect jobs. The agreement was signed in Tehran on Saturday between the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, the Plan and Budget Organization and the National Development Fund of Iran, according to the ministry's ...

Mehr | Raheleh Hesari: Gemstone processing is a great area for investment, particularly in a resource-rich country like Iran. However, the country has a long way to go if it wants to use the untapped but profitable opportunity. Many countries, even those without significant mineral resources, earn a great amount of money by importing gems ...

IFP - An Iranian official says the country is to dispatch skilled workforce to Germany under an agreement with the European country. Soleiman Pakdasht, the head of the Iranian Technical and Vocational Training Organization, says Iran plans to send between 3,000 and 5,000 skilled workers to Germany, adding the two countries are to finalize a ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday that in the absence of the cyberspace there will be no chance of any job opportunity for the youth. President Rouhani made the remarks in his first day of visit to Khorasan Razavi this year. Putting pressure on the youth generations will bear no result and it is not possible to deprive people from job ...

MNA - Government Spokesman and Head of Plan and Budget Organization Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht said that President Rouhani ordered the responsible officials of the country for generating more than one million employment opportunities in 1397 (started March 21, 2018). Given the above issue, Plan and Budget Organization will monitor and supervise creation ...

Financial Tribune- A total of 818,000 jobs were created in Iran during the first nine months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Dec. 21, 2017), indicating a 3.6% rise compared with last years similar period, the head of Statistical Center of Iran said. The number of unemployed people grew by 16,000 during the nine-month period to reach 3.2 million ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani urged all the relevant organizations in Iran to help expand the tourism industry and job creation in it. 'With the considerable advancements in medical knowledge and having advanced medical centers, good opportunities for development of tourism of health and providing medical services to neighboring countries have been ...

Al Monitor | Maysam Bizaer: Major Iranian urban centers have seen unprecedented air pollution in recent years. According to officials, it's caused primarily by the many cars on the streets, withheavy vehiclesincludingtrucksand busesemitting 63% of air-polluting particles.An estimated350,000dilapidated heavy vehicles, according to thetraffic police,...

MNA VP for Women and Family Affairs said Sat. that the government is determined to take measures for gender equality and creating equal access to social services and job opportunities for women. Vice-President for Women and Family Affairs Masumeh Ebtekar made the remarks in a meeting on Saturday in Urmia, adding that women currently occupy 40 ...