Tag: Employee

KARACHI - Saleem Shehzad, a former employee of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) awaiting court orders for reinstatement, died on Sunday after suffering a full cardiac arrest.
A resident of Ranchore Lines, Shehzad was among the 294 management-cadre employees sacked in April 2010 by the KESC management on charges of "poor performance and misconduct," sources told Pakistan Today. The company's stated reason for firing these officers was that they had failed to deliver

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has taken note of the fact that a number of retired officers are using official vehicles without authorisation while a large number of employees i.e. gardeners, drivers and police constables are also serving them. Similarly, the serving officers are using vehicles and services of such employees beyond their entitlement.
Punjab CM has directed that all administrative secretaries, heads of attached departments; autonomous,

KARACHI - A former employee of Airblue has written a letter to Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Board of Directors (BoD) member and Vice Chief of the Air Staff Air Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt, seeking his immediate intervention in the case of CAA Flight Inspector Capt Shafqat Mehmood. Sources have informed Pakistan Today that Capt Mehmood managed to have the CAA Board of Inquiry (BoI) president replaced and the terms of reference (ToR) of the inquiry being conducted against him

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

ISLAMABAD - Abdul Latif, a 50 year old employee of the Economic Afairs Division (EAD), was shot dead on Saturday by in-laws of his daughter, who married a young man through a local court. According to police, Adalat Khan and Attique, brother and brother-in-law of the girl, shot Abdul Latif outside his house in sector G-6-1/3 in the precincts of Aabpara Police Sation.
The girl's husband, Asad, informed police that his father was shot dead by Adalat and Attique. Body of the

ISLAMABAD - The chairman of the implementation commission on the 18th Amendment, Raza Rabbani on Monday quashed rumours that employees would be sent to a surplus pool under the 18th Amendment.
Talking to reporters after the meeting of the commission, Rabbani said neither any employee would be retrenched nor anyone would be sent to the surplus pool and the government would ensure that no employee is affected due to the devolution of ministries under the 18th Amendment.
He

LAHORE - Raymond Davis, the American who killed two Pakistanis in Lahore last month, is not a regular employee of the US embassy in Pakistan, but his name was put on the list of embassy staff after the incident. Sources said he had been working the US Army, where he worked as a firing instructor.

ISLAMABAD: Implementation Commission on 18th Constitutional Amendment Chairman Raza Rabbani said on Wednesday that no employee of the devolved ministries would be displaced.
Talking to the journalists, he said that the commission would pay special attention to the reservations of those who opposed the devolution process.
He added that the devolution process would be completed under the constitution and no one would be allowed to make further amendments in the

ISLAMABAD: Adviser to the prime minister Senator Mian Raza Rabbani on Wednesday briefed the parliament on decisions taken by the Implementation Commission on the 18th Amendment, saying during or after the process of devolution of functions to the provinces, the existing employees of these ministries or divisions would not be laid off.
"Rather, it would be ensured that terms and conditions of the service of those employees shall not be varied to their disadvantage. It was further

KARACHI: The Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) finance director has promoted his 'favourite employee' after giving him a waiver of four years, flouting the rule that an employee must serve for seven years before being promoted to the next grade.
Thus, Finance Director Secretariat Assistant Mohammad Shareef he has been promoted from pay group III to pay group IV after a four-year waiver. Before this promotion, he was a record assistant at the Finance Director Secretariat and