Tag: Labour
‘Let’s do a deal’ on Brexit: PM May tells Labour
LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday urged main opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to work with her to break the Brexit deadlock, telling...
Labour class is engine of economic growth, says Sindh CM
Raza Rabbani asks for counter narrative to acquire fundamental rights
KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Tuesday said that the provincial government believes...
Farhatullah Babar calls for protecting rights of Pakistani workers in CPEC...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader, Senator Farhatullah Babar, has said that there is a need for transparency in all the infrastructure projects under...
NZ Labour Party support at 10-year high
WELLINGTON: Support for New Zealand’s governing Labour Party surged to its highest level in more than a decade and approval ratings jumped for pregnant...
Four new laws being enacted to curb child labour
ISLAMABAD: Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration is in process of codifying four new labour laws to eliminate child labour from workshops, small roadside hotels...
Human rights activists urge to strengthen labour laws, end extrajudicial killings
KARACHI: A group of human rights activists on Wednesday called upon the government to take measures to improve labour rights situation and stop extra-judicial killings,...
Trump to name lawyer at firm advisory firm for labour board
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump plans to nominate as his choice to fill a vacant seat on the National Labour Relations Board a labour lawyer...
PPP is and was established for labourers: Nasir
KARACHI: Sindh Minister for Labour, Human Resources, Transport, Mass Transit and Information Syed Nasir Hussain Shah on Wednesday said that union officials should discharge...
Workers at Zara leave notes on clothes accusing fashion retailer of...
ISTANBUL: Shoppers at the fashion retailer Zara in Istanbul have found unusual tags on their garments — complaints by Turkish workers who say they...
Labour beats UKIP to win by-election in Brexit bastion
Britain’s Labour party on Friday beat UKIP to win a by-election in the Brexit bastion of Stoke-on-Trent, holding onto its seat while awaiting the...
Labourer dies as roof collapses in Chakwal
A labourer died when roof of an under- construction house collapsed here on Friday.
Rescue sources said that roof of an under construction house came...
Govt braces for 2 million new job seekers
Approximately two million new jobs were required in 2013-14, it was reported Thursday, as the labour force was expected to grow by 3.6 percent...
US citizen gets 15 years hard labour in North Korea
North Korea said Thursday it had sentenced a Korean-American tour operator to 15 years’ hard labor for “hostile acts”, stoking tensions with the United...
PHILANTHROPIC GESTURE
A German buyer of the textile products has agreed to pay compensation to the victims of the Ali Enterprises (Baldia factory) tragedy as well...
Essential equipment missing in Jinnah Hospital’s labour room
The 13-bed labour room of the Jinnah Hospital, where around 50 deliveries are performed every day, lacks the required facilities and equipment to sustain...
Pakistan a dismal place to be a kid, report finds
A report from one of Pakistan’s leading child advocacy groups, the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, presents an overwhelmingly...
Save the children
Pakistan is faced with the problem of about 3.3 million children engaged in various forms of labour. Almost 73 per cent of the workers,...
