The legal context of employment discrimination in iran

Iranian law as a whole is founded on Islamic Shari’a Following the Iranian Islamic revolution in 1979, and the emergence of the new Constitution. Therefore, promoting equality by eliminating various forms of discrimination is necessary. Without the legislation outlawing employment discrimination in Iran and having agreed that equality and non-discrimination is a universally accepted principle, this article addresses the issue of employment discrimination that has become uncontrolled in Iran by deliberating the subject matter from the legal context. It is therefore suggested for the government, specially the Ministry of Human Resource, to introduce a workplace anti-discrimination policy or guidance in order to deal with the issue.In Iranian labour code and Constitution of Islamic Republic of Iran (revised in 1989) right to employment is foreseen.International law has introduced, most significantly through ILO standards of labor which purpose to protect the rights of individuals with regards to labor. The aim of this paper is to examine the different aspects of “Right to employment” which present labor standards, namely ‘access to employment’, non-discrimination in employment and occupation’, and ‘protection against dismissal’ is examine in Iranian Labor law.