Praise for the voluntary retirement law.. and an expert believes: The Social Security Department wil

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[size=52]Praise for the voluntary retirement law.. and an expert believes: The Social Security Department will fail in the mission[/size]

[size=45]The Department of Retirement and Social Security for Workers at the Ministry of Labor revealed that it has begun the procedures for implementing the voluntary retirement law, stressing that a large segment of workers did not have a share of this law previously, but today they will have a retirement salary, while experts confirmed that the department will not be able to Containing citizens and meeting their needs in this regard.[/size]
[size=45]For her part, the Director General of the Department of Retirement and Social Security for Workers, Kholoud Hiran, explained in a previous statement followed by (Al Mada), that “service in voluntary retirement begins from the date of submitting the application, and that payment will be monthly according to the category that is chosen.” She indicated that the participant in the voluntary retirement service can move from one category to another after a year has passed, calling on all participants in the voluntary insurance to commit to paying the amounts monthly for the category they choose in order to guarantee their rights and ensure a decent life for them and their families.[/size]
[size=45]question[/size]
[size=45]Citizens praised the government’s work in issuing laws that serve the poor class of society. Hossam Nasser (34 years old) says, “For the first time in my life, I see that the government is trying to support the citizen with a law it issues,” noting, “It will also pay pension contributions by 15%.” %, that is, three times what the worker pays for self-insurance, which is called (optional insurance).”[/size]
[size=45]Nasser added in his speech to (Al-Mada), “The working class is at the back of the queue according to previous governments, but today we are trying to restore our confidence in them. Such laws help us deal with life and its difficulties, and make the country move towards development by paying attention to all segments in order to achieve justice.” But will implementation be real and easy in the relevant departments?[/size]
[size=45]Positive law[/size]
[size=45]While legal expert Ali Al-Tamimi explained, “The Labor and Social Security Law is synonymous with the Retirement Law, and it is a law that serves the private sectors, workers and those who work in it, and this law is consistent with the orientations of the Iraqi state because it has an approach to a free and capitalist economy.” Noting, “This law will serve many segments of society by granting retirement to workers, whether for workers in the private sector or the mixed sector, by paying pension contributions, and establishing a body in the Ministry of Labor to open files, and a percentage of the pension contributions will be paid to the employer, a percentage to the worker, and another percentage to the employer.” Country".[/size]
[size=45]Al-Tamimi added to Al-Mada, “There is the possibility of buying the worker five years, which the law has specified, on the condition that he pays the amounts of retirement contributions for these years.” Pointing out, “This law is positive, whether retirement is for 15 years, 60 years, or 58 years for women, and it contains many details that serve the private sector, and will encourage investment, capital, and work, because this law includes even a taxi driver, and those who have small markets and other... Free enterprise, which makes this law serve the country in the long term.”[/size]
[size=45]Actions and failures[/size]
[size=45]In turn, the financial and banking expert, Mustafa Akram Hantoush, explains that “Law No. 18 of 2023, which was approved since the ninth month of 2023, while its implementation was issued in October of the same year, and a portal has been opened since the beginning of this year, which is the Ur Gate for people who... They own their own job, such as a taxi driver or a shop owner.” Pointing out, “Optional retirement is not organized by companies or projects, and there is a possibility for these people to submit it on the Ur portal by filling out their information through a simple process, through which they can set the lowest salary for them, which would have been 350,000 Iraqi dinars, after which the form will go to the workers’ department.” Then the department will send a researcher to verify his work and ability to pay retirement deductions, which is a routine procedure and not a preliminary one.”[/size]
[size=45]Hantoush added to (Al-Mada), “It is now assumed that the process of pension deductions from citizens for this type of security has begun, and it will then enter the Social Security Fund.” Continuing his speech, the guarantee constitutes parts of the percentages, including those that are deducted from the worker at a rate of 5%, while the state’s rate is 15%, and thus 20% is entered into the retirement fund, in addition to many privileges, including reaching the retirement age in addition to his family receiving the benefits. Pension. Noting that “this law is correct and successful and resulted from the experience of the Sudanese government during his previous tenure as minister. Otherwise, we would not have witnessed these important laws that affect an important class of society.”[/size]
[size=45]Hantoush continues: “We are now faced with the failure of the Social Security Department to implement this law, because it is a simple department unable to implement and meet the simplest needs of citizens. If you want to ask in that department, you will have to stand in queues, so the Prime Minister must pay attention to the issue of this issue.” The department must be an expanded department with many employees, and it must be able to meet the requirements of millions of citizens, otherwise the law will be preferred in terms of implementation and not in terms of legislation.”[/size]
[size=45]It is noteworthy that the total number of work-related injuries in Iraq (excluding the Kurdistan region) was 5,777, while the deaths resulting from them amounted to 122 cases. The largest number of injuries was recorded in Diyala Governorate, east of Baghdad, with a total of 1,810 cases, and it is also the first in terms of deaths, as 47 deaths were recorded there. According to the annual statistical report for 2022 issued by the Ministry of Health.[/size]
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