Tag: Labour

HAFIZABAD - The payment of at least Rs 7,000 minimum wages to workers under the Labour Policy 2010 will be ensured at all cost while a complaint cell has been set up at Hafizabad. This was stated by District Officer Labour Naveed Qureshi in a press release on Monday.
He warned that strict action would be taken against the mills owners found violating the rules of paying monthly wages of Rs 7,000. He said that complaints in this regard can be got registered at the compliant cell

KARACHI - The District and Sessions Court South on Wednesday confirmed the pre-arrest bail applications of nine labour leaders of KESC unions. Akhlaq Ahmed, Aslam Sammon Latif Mughal, Haji Shahzad, Usman Baloch, Arbab Asad, Haji Usman, Aziz-ur-Rahman and Raj Mir, along with hundreds of Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) workers, allegedly attacked and damaged the head office of the power utility in Defence on January 20 after more than 4,000 employees were sacked by the

LAHORE - Participants of the consultative workshop on "Formulation of National Policy for Home-Based Workers" on Friday discussed draft of the National Policy on Home-Based Workers and agreed to go ahead with it at the national level. The consultation was organised by the Labour and Manpower Ministry's Labour Welfare Wing in collaboration with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and UN Women.
The workshop was attended by senior officials of the Punjab Labour Department,

ISLAMABAD - An unspecified number of official files have been stolen from the Ministry of Labour and Manpower, a police official said. He stated that a ministry employee Mukhtiar Ahmad reported on Wednesday that a massive quantity of official record, bearing accounts worth millions of rupees, had been stolen by some 'unknown persons'.
The Secretariat police, after recording statements of a number of ministry officials, have registered a case under section 380. A team, headed by

LAHORE - People's Labour Bureau (PLB) Punjab has condemned the bombings in Lahore and Karachi on Tuesday. "These acts are a part of a larger conspiracy to destabilize the country. Those who play with innocents were country's enemies, and have nothing to do with Islam and Pakistan," PLB Information Secretary Muhammad Saleem Mughal and Punjab General Secretary Khalid Bukhari said on Wednesday, and also appreciated the police's role.

LAHORE - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) leaders, lamenting over sufferings of labourers, said on Friday that workers are facing worst conditions and they should continue to fight for their rights. PTI Punjab President Ahsan Rasheed, during an emergency meeting at the party's Punjab Secretariat, said that workers are facing anti-worker policies formed by so-called advocates of workers rights and now the common man is unable to earn even two meals a day, as electricity and gas load

LAHORE - A meeting of representatives of trade unions organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has deplored the lack of regard for labour rights and international conventions while adopting new labour laws, following the transfer of the subject to the provinces under the 18th Amendment.
The labour representatives took exception to the provision of the 18th Amendment that abolished the system of labour legislation at the national level, a provision they have

Lahore - Struggle for Labour forum's President Abdur Rauf and General secretary Ashfaq termed 2010 as the year of anti labour, they said that through the implementation of Punjab Industrial Relation Act, rights of the labouers were seized, whereas less than 50 labourers would not be able to make trade unions, they added.

LAHORE: Pakistan Student Federation (PSF) Okara division staged a sit-in protest at the door of the Governor of the Punjab at Mall Road against their own Labor Minister Ashraf Khan Sohna.
Members of PSF Okara wing were seen blocking the road by lying down on the street in front of the cars on the main gate of the Governor's house at Mall Road. The protest participants claimed that the Minister of Labor Ashraf Khan Sohna who belongs from the same party (Pakistan people party) had