 Management had to seat labour representatives on the company’s board of directors, which was unprecedented in the traditional management style of Iranian private sector, in addition to enforcement many welfare and mandatory benefit.The first dent in the labour law came about with the introduction of temporary employment contracts that allowed employers to hire employees under a one-year contract with the ability to be reissued year after year after a settlement of the annual "end of services" benefit.The Ministry of Labour issued a communiqué in March 1994 stating that employment under the "fixed terms" contracts was legal.