The Committee of Follow Up on the Implementation of the Government Program and Strategic Planning in the House of Representatives confirmed that the next stage will witness the presentation of a working paper that includes the priorities of important laws that should be enacted to serve citizens and establish the principle of social justice in the country, foremost of which are retirement and social security laws for workers.
In an interview, Committee member Mohamed Shiaa Al-Sudani told Al-Sabah newspaper that “the committee will be presented after the return to work in the House of Representatives; with a working paper outlining the priorities of laws in the next stage and whose choices require importance and priority according to what is in the interest of society and remedy crises.
AL-Sudani noted that these laws the core of the most important solutions that create the necessary regulations to protect a large segment of the private sector workers and the unemployed, indicating that the crisis that Iraq is going through has produced new plans that depend on the elements of the stage and what it requires, therefore the House of Representatives, after starting its work, must begin to address the current situations and crises with regard to the legislation of laws and priorities.
Al-Sudani added, “The laws required at this first stage are those related to the economic situation, and amendments to the retirement and social security law for workers must be enacted, in order to guarantee the rights of a wide segment of workers in the private sector and ensure their equality with their peers in the government sector”.
Al-Sudani pointed out that “it is necessary to reconsider the unified pension law that caused administrative, financial and social crises and came hastily, as well as to review laws that relate to tax and fiscal and monetary policy and that address crises to which the Iraqi economy is exposed”.
Al-Sudani pointed out that “one of the laws that addresses the current situation, which is one of the important solutions; is the unified pension and social security law that has been studied by the previous government and the State Council, which has been subject to many discussions and workshops, and has grew since then.”
Al-Sudani emphasized that “the atmosphere is fully prepared for approval.” The retirement and social security law, and the issue of the financial implications of the law is a challenge, and the government and the state should take it upon themselves to guarantee this large number of the private sector, which statistics of the Ministry of Planning indicate that there are approximately 5 million
workers in the informal sectors, and this segment of the population cannot be left out without protection”.
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