Ministry of Cooperative, Labor and Social Welfare

Mission: To make policy, plan, strategy, to monitor and oversee in order to regulate labour relations in compliance with the principle of tripartism, to protect workforce, to develop and empower cooperatives, to create balance in the labour market, to enhance jobs sustainability and to promote social justice in the field of insurance, support and empowerment in accordance with the principles of comprehensiveness, adequacy and all-inclusiveness based on the insurance law. Vision: 1- Protecting workforce with a focus to improve labour productivity 2- Improving workers’ and employers’ cultural and social indicators 3- Creating balance in the labour market 4- Increasing the share of the cooperative sector in the national economy 5- Developing and promoting social welfare indicators 6- Reducing social vulnerability 7- Extending and promoting social insurance 8- Creating stability and balance between resources and expenditures of social insurance funds 9- Building administrative efficiency and improving effectiveness of the governance role of the Ministry to fulfill its missions. Terms of Reference: - To plan and supervise application of labour and cooperative law, comprehensive welfare and social security system and other relevant laws and regulations - To set policy and plan in order to regulate labour relations, to investigate and solve workers’ issues and problems, to regulate worker and employer relationship based on tripartism in order to protect workforce - To make policy and plan with a view to expand and develop civil institutions and agencies in the field of cooperatives, labour and social welfare - To set occupational safety rules, regulations, standards and recommendations and to annually determine minimum wage of workers in the Labour Supreme Council - To make policy, plan and administer affairs related to cooperatives, labour and social welfare assemblies and high councils - ... And to read other sections, please refer to the website.