Tehran, YJC. Iran's Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Ali Rabiee has numerated countries for Iranian labor force emigration and said the ministry is planning to send 100 thousand job seekers abroad by the end of summer 2015.
Rabiee told the reporters that in the past, sending out the
country's workforce abroad did not come with positive connotations, rather being
considered as a negative aspect of emigration. Meanwhile, "studies reveal that currently
we do not have proper share of international labor markets,” he explained.
Noting that the problem is mostly rooted in issues including
the sanctions and Iranophobia, the minister pointed to illegal job employment
centers sending non-professional labor force abroad as another factor negatively
influencing the workforce issue.
Rabiee said efforts to negotiate with the labor ministers of
destination countries are underway and said the ministry presided by him has
sent out a total of 5000 workforces abroad the current year.
Addressing the employment of Iranian workforce in Persian Gulf
countries, Oceania, Canada, Australia, Europe, and Southwest Asia Rabiee said construction,
nursing, oil and gas, petrochemicals and engineering sectors are ready to send
out workforce overseas.