Infallible approves labor law

Alsumaria News / Baghdad - Announced the Presidency of the Republic, on Monday, President authentication Fuad Masum, the labor law, and as pointed out that the law gives broader social guarantees operating under the foundations endorsed by the Constitution, stressed that the law will become effective 90 days after the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.

Said presidential spokesman Khaled Huani in a statement seen by Alsumaria News,"The President of the Republic Fuad Masum, honest, today, the labor law," noting that "the new law includes all the principles endorsed by the Constitution on ensuring a decent life for workers and regulate the rights and duties of workers, as well as for regulating the legal relationship between the worker and the employer."

He Huani, that "the new law gives a broader social guarantees operating under economic and legal foundations endorsed by the Constitution, and adopt the law and international standards to ensure workers' rights and the protection of the right to organize and to eliminate all kinds of forced labor, child labor, equal pay and determine the minimum age for employment." .

He pointed out that "the law guarantees the principles of the organization of the work of women and juveniles, foreigners and limits on working hours."

He continued, that "the law will deal with problems resulting from previous laws and decisions," explaining that "the law will become effective after 90 days from the date of its publication in the Official Gazette."

The House of Representatives voted on Monday (17 August 2015), a majority on the draft labor law.

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