Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said on Monday that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) government is a pro-worker dispensation which has taken several steps for the welfare of the labour class.
Addressing a function organised by the Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) Employees Union, the minister said the PTV had played an important role in presenting the government’s point of view before the masses which was worth appreciation.
He said when the PPP government had come into power in 2008, the country was facing multiple crises and the economy was in shambles. “Despite these difficulties the PPP had served the masses and will emerge victorious in the next elections as well,” he noted.
Kaira said the PPP had revoked several anti-worker laws that had been in place until 2008, and taken legislative action to regularise thousands of employees in various public sector organisations, including the PTV. The government had also restored thousands of employees that had been sacked in 1996-97 on political grounds, he added. “Prices of petroleum products and edibles have increased in the international markets which have adversely affected consumers, but Pakistan is the only country that has increased the salaries of public sector employees by 150 per cent in four years,” said the minister.
Kaira said as a party of farmers, workers and labourers, the PPP would continue to take further steps for the welfare of these segments of the society.
He said all workers had the right to job security and directed the PTV managing director to forward cases of all employees who had completed their probation period so they could be regularised.
He also said Christian PTV employees would be given salaries in advance.
PPP has taken several steps for workers’ welfare, says Kaira
