title: Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (Syria)
text: # Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour (Syria)
  
  The Ministry of Social Affairs and Labour is the main authority administrating labour affairs and social matters, including labour inspection, and a department of the Government of Syria.
  
  ## Responsibility
  
  The ministry is responsible for labor and employment, occupational health and safety, employment in the public sector, family empowerment, poverty reduction and livelihood support, development of the social protection system and social security system, and the provision of social protection and care for the most vulnerable or vulnerable social groups.
  
  ## Organisation
  
  The Directorates of the Ministry:
  
  * Directorate of Associations and Private Institutions
  * Social Protection Directorate
  * Rural Development Directorate
  * Directorate of Labor Inspection, Health and Safety
  * Labor Relations Directorate
  * Manpower Directorate
  * Directorate of Labor Market Observatory
  * Directorate of Technology and Information Systems
  * Directorate of Technical and Engineering Affairs
  * Legal Affairs Directorate
  * Directorate of Administrative Affairs
  * Directorate of Planning and International Cooperation
  * Directorate of Administrative Development
  * Directorate of Internal Control
  
  ### Regional Oganisation
  
  The MOSAL is decentralized in its main structure and is represented in of the 14 regional departments by a regional Directorate of Social Affairs, which has social, employment and inspection functions.
  
  ## Ministers
  
  | Minister | Government | Term |
  | - | - | - |
  | Minister of Social Affairs and Labour |||
  | Rima al-Qadiri | Imad Khamis government | 2016 to 2020 |
  | Salwa Abdullah | First Hussein Arnous government | 2020 to 2021 |
  | Mohamed Seif El-Din | Second Hussein Arnous government | 2021 to 2023 |
  | Louai Emad El-Din al-Munajjid | Second Hussein Arnous government | 2023 to present |
  