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Parliamentary work: poverty rates will fall
August 22, 2015
BAGHDAD / Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) - the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs said that the work of the new work, which was approved by Parliament last week, the law will lead to lower unemployment rates that have been rising due to the country's security and economic situation.
The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation last Thursday's high rates of poverty in Iraq to 22.5%, up 5.5% from 2013, attributed the reason to the battles that take place in many areas and the loss of thousands of jobs.
The head of the Committee for honest we hinted (IMN) "The high rates of unemployment in Iraq is to be expected because of the security escalation located in three provinces and the loss of employees their jobs and workers to their jobs and the presence of more than three million people displaced by the Daash terrorist gangs".
The ordeal and said that "the new labor law, as well as a survey conducted by the Ministry of Labour Affairs unanimous to expand covered by the salaries of social care, will have a significant impact on poverty reduction," adding that "social welfare allocations aimed at citizens below the poverty line."
The House of Representatives approved last week a new labor law which put workers in the private sector systems and within their financial rights.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in 2005, the application of the social safety net program, which grants subsidies to segments of the disabled, widows, orphans and divorced and unemployed.
From: Haider al-Tamimi, editor: Mushtaq Feeli
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August 22, 2015
BAGHDAD / Center Brief for the Iraqi Media Network (IMN) - the Committee on Labor and Social Affairs said that the work of the new work, which was approved by Parliament last week, the law will lead to lower unemployment rates that have been rising due to the country's security and economic situation.
The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation last Thursday's high rates of poverty in Iraq to 22.5%, up 5.5% from 2013, attributed the reason to the battles that take place in many areas and the loss of thousands of jobs.
The head of the Committee for honest we hinted (IMN) "The high rates of unemployment in Iraq is to be expected because of the security escalation located in three provinces and the loss of employees their jobs and workers to their jobs and the presence of more than three million people displaced by the Daash terrorist gangs".
The ordeal and said that "the new labor law, as well as a survey conducted by the Ministry of Labour Affairs unanimous to expand covered by the salaries of social care, will have a significant impact on poverty reduction," adding that "social welfare allocations aimed at citizens below the poverty line."
The House of Representatives approved last week a new labor law which put workers in the private sector systems and within their financial rights.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs in 2005, the application of the social safety net program, which grants subsidies to segments of the disabled, widows, orphans and divorced and unemployed.
From: Haider al-Tamimi, editor: Mushtaq Feeli
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