Tag: Labour

Kinnaird College for Women will organise a seminar in collaboration with the Child Care Foundation of Pakistan (CCFP) at Hladia Hall today (Tuesday) at...

Society for Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) held a conference on Monday at the Lahore Press Club on child domestic labour...

Over 25,000 children are forced to work in the district to support their poverty-hit parents while there is no authority to control child labour....

The slower growth of labour productivity in comparison with regional competitors is the most crucial economic challenge the country faces. Research indicates that Pakistan...

As alarm bells have already started ringing in the PML-Q following reports of the devolution of the ministries it secured in the power-sharing deal...

Labour organisations, led by the Labour Party Pakistan (LPP), held a protest at the Mall Road on Tuesday against inflation, unemployment and load shedding...

Expressing dissatisfaction over the Ministry of Labor and Manpower’s Worker Welfare Fund, the Public Accounts Committee has asked for a detailed report within eight...

The government has ratified innovative worker-friendly laws in the country, enabling the employees to take their disputes to labour courts, Labour Appellate Tribunal and...

Like other parts of the globe the Labour Day will be observed in Pakistan today (Sunday) to remember the struggle of Chicago labourers and...

Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that May Day was the day to salute the dignity of labour. This day reminds us...

BEIJING - A 21-year-old Chinese man who attended a proposed pro-democracy "Jasmine Revolution" protest in Beijing was sentenced to labour re-education, in the first confirmed punishment for the Middle East-inspired gatherings that were squashed by wary authorities. The man, Wei Qiang, was sentenced to 2 years in a labour re-education camp. He was a former art student who did some work at the studio of the detained artist-activist Ai Weiwei, according to two friends of Wei, who

ISLAMABAD - Despite having relevant laws against the bonded labour, their implementation still seems a distant dream because of the Law Ministry's apathy. There are thousands of workers who face exploitation at the hands of those who subject them to forced and underpaid labour. Yasin, who is in his 40s and is a father of three, is one typical example of a bonded labour victim. Hailing from Faisalabad Yasin along with his family toiled for minimum or no wages for five years at a

FAISALABAD - The Child Rights Committee (CRC) Faisalabad has announced to compile a database on child labour that will provide vital guidelines to draw out a strategy to fight the menace.
As a first step, the CRC members and volunteers will identify the statistics of child labour at union council level. The announcement was made by CRC Deputy Coordinator Mujahid Gilani advocate at the monthly meeting of the committee held at District Council Faisalabad chaired by chief

ISLAMABAD - Around seven departments of the Ministry of Labour and Manpower will not be devolved to the provinces and would remain the federal subject, an official told Pakistan Today on Saturday. "There are seven major wings of the Ministry of Labour and Manpower that will not be devolved to the provinces. They include Overseas Employment Corporation, National Training Bureau, Directorate of Workers Education, Pakistan Institute of Manpower and Human Resource Department," Arslan

LONDON - Britain's Labour Party has claimed that the Tories' government does not want Muslims to live in the central London while the mayor of London has also described the housing reforms as 'draconian', saying it could lead to 'Kosovo-style' social cleansing.
Karen Buck, the shadow work and pensions minister, said the government's controversial plans to cut housing benefits were designed to force 'black, ethnic minority and Muslim women' out into the capital's poorer suburbs.

LAHORE - Provincial Labour and Auqaf Minister Syed Ehsaan-ud-Din Qureshi announced the establishment of a residential colony for labourers consisting 1296 houses worth Rs 2177 million each on Defence Road, during a departmental briefing on Wednesday. Qureshi said 70 percent development work had been completed in the colony where all basic and modern residential facilities will be available.
He said that forty-six workers' welfare schools will be set up for the labourers' children

ISLAMABAD - The devolution of the Ministry of Labour and Manpower will hit the poor labourers and the employees of the lower grades of smaller provinces, an official source told Pakistan Today.
"Several issues were not analyzed properly before the introduction of the 18th Amendment. For example, most of the revenue of the Employees Old-Age Benefit Institution (EOBI) is generated from Sindh and Punjab but larger part of the revenue goes to the small provinces of Balochistan and