Explaining the Collective Bargaining: An approach to the Iranian Labor Law

Collective bargaining is one of the forms of social dialogue that consists negotiations between an employer, a group of employers or employers’ representatives and employees’ representatives to determine the issues related to wages and conditions of employment. International Labor Organization (I.L.O) described it as Bipartite Social Dialogue. This social dialogue takes the expansion of satisfaction, agreement and liberal participation of all interested parties in labor world as its main goal. Meanwhile, employers and employees as two important classes in society need to perform the social dialogue and collective bargaining with each other from one hand, and with the government on the other, to achieving their objectives and attaining their rights. Different issues related to work relations between employee and employer can be discussed in such negotiations in which with regard to the economic, political and social conditions in each country, other issues can be raised.This paper deals with the nature of the collective bargaining as a process, from rising differences and disputes to achieving some agreement, consent or a collective agreement (contract) between parties. Of course, the authors try depending on the discussions, to take a glance on Iranian labor law in the course of paper.