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NCRI –\u00a0To create jobs for the unemployed graduates, Iranian regime\u2019s Ministry of Labor has officially kicked off its internship program through launching a website.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, deputy head of Employers Labor Unions Association believes that such programs are not going to resolve unemployment crisis.<\/p>\n
Isa Mansouri, deputy chief of Labor Ministry\u2019s Employment and Entrepreneurship Development Office, has announced that University Graduates Internship Program will officially start late June. This comes after regime\u2019s Ministry of Labor launched in April this year the internship program website on which university graduates could register.<\/p>\n
In his interview with judiciary\u2019s Mizan news agency on Thursday June 22, regime\u2019s Labor Minister \u2018Ali Rabiei\u2019 announced that 200 thousand unemployed graduates have already registered on the website, adding \u201duniversity graduates will through this program be introduced to business enterprises and units for employment.\u201d<\/p>\n
There are, however, serious doubts over the program\u2019s success. Although the government is seeking to spend on programs that could drive the graduates out of unemployment figures, but that necessarily won\u2019t lead to a sustainable employment.<\/p>\n
Entering the operational phase over the past couple of months, the internship and skill-learning programs have been faced with increased disputes, drawing lots of criticism from both labor activists and regime\u2019s own experts.<\/p>\n
Deputy Head of Employers Labor Unions Association \u2018Mohammad Atarodian\u2019 said in an interview with state-run ILNA news agency \u201csuch programs like internship and skill-learning are not going to resolve the country\u2019s unemployment crisis, and the government needs to come up with a useful strategy in order to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pointing to similar programs such as fast-yielding and home enterprises launched by previous governments, Atarodian says the programs failed to lead to job creation as they were not expertly planned, so unemployment remained intact.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than trying to wipe the question\u201d, adds Atarodian, \u201cthe economy\u2019s illness must be treated, otherwise, even providing employers with insurance exemptions is not going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Kamal Ethari, referred to as economist and sociologist, asserted on June 19 that even if such programs have positive points, they won\u2019t lead to real job creation due to the way they\u2019re implemented by the government.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pointing to officials\u2019 launching a website to quickly absorb job seekers, the economic expert told ILNA \u201cbefore introducing regulations or setting up a website, such programs need to be backed by sponsoring entities.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ali Aslani, board member of the so-called \u2018Islamic Labor Councils Association\u2019, criticizes job creation programs from another aspect, saying \u201cinternship and skill-learning programs will lead to no bright horizon in the field of working relationships, challenging rule of law with an increased chaos.\u201c<\/p>\n
Some labor activists believe that internship and skill-learning programs will cause job seekers to be no longer subjected to supportive laws and legislations of the labor council, and that such programs will invalidate chapter five of labor law which is related to the relationships between interns and employers.<\/p>\n
In addition to such criticisms, there\u2019s still another problem which has been directly and indirectly acknowledged by government officials, namely the disproportion between the absorption capacity of the likes of internship program and the number of graduates entering the job market each year.<\/p>\n
According to regime\u2019s presidential website, regime\u2019s president Hassan Rouhani has said in a ceremony earlier this year \u201crather than creating jobs for the youth over the past years, they opened university doors to admit five million students, so that today nearly 800 thousand graduates enter the job market each year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Mizan news agency says the government has predicted that 150 thousand graduates will be employed every year through the program. Moreover, the graduates thus employed will receive only one third of the minimum wage of workers, at least at the early stages of their employment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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