Challenges of Employees’ Rights in Iranian Administrative Laws and Regulations from a Human Rights Perspective
Keywords:
Human rights, Employees’ rights, Administrative law, Western human rights, Iranian human rights, Human rights challenges in IranAbstract
In this article, we seek to examine the challenges of this subject through a doctrinal and legal approach, using the library research method, with an applied orientation and a descriptive-analytical nature. The purpose of raising issues of administrative human rights—similar to other manifestations of human rights—is the protection of employees against public authority and state officials. It is important to understand what challenges, gaps, and deficiencies exist in the implementation of human rights norms in our country’s administrative laws and regulations concerning employees’ rights, given the human rights dimensions. For this reason, the matter of the extent to which government employees enjoy fundamental rights is of great significance. The research indicates that many civil rights of government employees and the guarantees for their enforcement have been addressed in administrative laws and regulations; however, despite Iran’s accession to a number of treaties, the Islamic Republic of Iran faces serious challenges in the implementation of and accession to other treaties, and has been subject to criticism by international forums. These challenges stem primarily from two major factors: differences in ideological foundations regarding human rights norms, and the political orientation of international organizations and states toward the implementation of human rights standards in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It should be noted that employees’ rights are not comprehensively articulated within administrative laws, and that not all human rights norms applicable to employees are reflected in administrative laws and regulations.
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