The harassment and extortion by staff of Employees Old Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) would be strictly dealt with and punished, EOBI Director General Iqbal Haider Zaidi informed the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI).
Zaidi said the EOBI was a welfare-oriented institution and he was shocked to know that EOBI staff was harassing the people for its personal gains. He assured stringent action against the errant staff. He advised the employers to get their employees registered with EOBI online as the EOBI had developed its online registration system and has given access to the employers and employees to log on.
He advised businessmen to contribute towards various schemes of the institution for better future of their employees. He said at present the institution was planning to expand its network throughout the country.
Zaidi said the institution had introduced a number portability facility under which an employees’ EOBI number for contribution would remain same even if he changed employers. “More than three million employees are currently registered with the EOBI and 360,000 are getting pension benefits,” he said adding the institution covered all those industrial and commercial enterprises which had five or more employees.
However, he said, the businesses which had less than five employees could get them voluntarily registered with the EOBI. Zaidi said the EOBI was playing a significant role in alleviating poverty because millions of families were getting financial support from it.
KATI Chief Patron SM Muneer said most of the industrial associations had massive complaints against EOBI staff for harassment and extortion. He said that image of the EOBI has been destroyed by the top slots with their stubborn attitude and only focusing on meeting the targets. KATI Chairman Mohammad Zubair Chhaya said the EOBI should launch an effective awareness campaign about its services because most employees in the private sector were unaware of benefit of its services.
He suggested a committee comprising representatives of the institution and KATI be set up to resolve EOBI-related issues of businessmen.
Staff at Rawalpindi EOBI is behaving normally except an elderly woman sitting to do audit. She does pile up files for months and if some one ask for his claim form specially coming from remote areas and suburbs, she cries like a hell. pls replace her as she is adversely affecting the performance of the whole office. Thanks.
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