A Study and Critique of Unemployment Insurance in Iran and its Developments in Light of International Documents

According to insurance law, an unemployed person is an insured one who has become involuntarily unemployed, and who has readiness for work. A committee consisting of representatives of Insurance Organization and Administration of Work and Social Affairs decide on whether the unemployment has been voluntary or involuntary. In the first decades of the 20th century and with the establishment of The International Labor Organization, this organization codified certain criteria of the dangers which were set forth in subsequent decades under the more general title of social security and some conventions and recommendations regarding this were enacted. Although The International Labor Organization has experienced different periods during its eighty-year activity and International Labor Rights, which is mainly the outcome of "legislation" of this organization, has had considerable developments, and although there are some similarities between the performance of The International Labor Organization and the legislative method of European countries in the early decades concerning their attention to social support of workers during the first era which can be called the era of "particularism" in codification of international criteria, this article mainly seeks to investigate the effect of international criteria on internal law rather than the possible influence of certain states on some criteria during a particular era. Therefore, this article seeks to investigate and criticize unemployment insurance in Iran and its developments in light of international documents. The data gathering method used in this research is documentary-librarian and the technique used for collecting the data was note taking.