Tag: Workers

KARACHI - Lower staff of the Sindh Education Department returned to the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Tuesday to protest the "failure of the provincial government to honour its commitment to regularise these workers" but their attempts to march towards the Chief Minister's (CM) House were crushed by law enforcers, who fired tear gas shells and baton-charged them.
The lower grade employees, under the auspices of the All-Sindh Education Department Lower Staff Association (ASEDLSA),

KARACHI - Despite the recent reinstatement of over 4,000 employees, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) has outsourced various departments to private companies and turning the restored workers practically redundant. Fearing that grounds are being prepared to lay them off, more than 1,000 KESC workers returned to the Karachi Press Club (KPC) to protest against the company's management, with many arguing that another round management-workers face-off is likely in the coming

DASKA - A social security dispensary would be set up for the staff of Sambrial Dry Port, said Noor-ul-Haq, the employees union president, addressing a meeting.
He said all-out efforts were being made to solve the problems of the dry port workers with the cooperation of the management. General Secretary Baber Saeed also spoke on this occasion.
Saqib Cheema, Farooq Anwar, Mustansar Yousaf, Mian Riaz, Tariq Jatt, Nadeem Malik and Sheikh Imran were among those present there.

KARACHI - The Sindh government has extended the contractual services of the senior member of the Board of Revenue, who also holds the additional charge of acting chief secretary (CS), for an indefinite period, in violation of the apex court's orders.
The provincial government removed a number of contract employees from various departments last month in compliance with the Supreme Court's orders. However, the appointment of a senior member of the Board of Revenue, Ghulam Ali Shah

KARACHI - Home-based workers (HBWs), 65 percent of whom comprise women, have demanded ratification and implementation of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention C 177. Representatives of these women, through the platform of the National Organisation of Working Communities and Home Net said the ratification of the international law would help the regularisation of the unregistered workers, who are exploited due to their status. "We are not only denied the officially

KARACHI - The sacked lower grade employees of the Sindh Education Department, on a hunger strike outside the Karachi Press Club, will march to the Sindh Assembly building today to record their protest.
All Sindh Education Department Lower Staff Association (ASEDLSA) President Darya Khan Jamali told Pakistan Today that the Arbab Rahim-led government had appointed them by allowing a relaxation in age limit on the premise that no appointments were made in the Education Department

LAHORE - The exclusion of the Pakistan People's Party from the Punjab government was the "call of workers," Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) chief Nawaz Sharif said on Saturday. Addressing PML-N workers from Hazara, Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan, and Peshawar divisions at his Model Town residence, Nawaz said that the PML-N would have supported the PPP-led government had it resolved the problems of the people.
Nawaz said a revolutionary team to enforce a revolutionary agenda was in

KARACHI - Contractual workers of the Education Department returned to Karachi on Friday to protest the delay in turning their services permanent, but the police brutally crushed any attempts to demonstrate outside the Chief Minister's House - tear-gassing hundreds of lower-grade in protests that continued throughout the day.
On Friday morning, the Sindh Assembly had in fact unanimously passed a resolution to urge the Sindh chief minister to utilise his powers to regularise the

LAHORE - Association of Women for Awareness and Motivation (AWAM) organised a three-day training of trainers titled 'Empowering the activists to defend women workers' rights'. As many as 35 Muslim and Christian participants including working women and representatives of civil society organizations actively participated in the training held at Dar-ul-Kalam.
The purpose of the training was to equip trainees in order to promote and protect human rights of working class. The

KARACHI - Regarding news item published in Daily Pakistan Today, Karachi, on February 12, 2011, it is clarified that nomination of Shamshad Qureshi by the approval of Prime Minister of Pakistan as member Board of Directors of Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) is highly appreciated and admired by workers of the PSM.
Qureshi is the Chairman of Pakistan Steel Peoples Workers Union (CBA) and under his leadership Peoples Workers Union got a hat trick in PSM referendums for determination of

KARACHI - Sindh Katchi Abadis and Spatial Development Minister Engineer Muhammad Rafique assured the protesting lower staff employees of the Education Department on Saturday that their issue would be resolved on priority basis. The minister told the employees, who were protesting outside the press club, he said that they would be regularised after the Sindh Assembly reviews the legal aspects for this purpose.

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Q offered its logistic support to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) in Punjab after getting the latter's assurance that it will not woo PML-Q workers for joining MQM in the province.
"The MQM leaders assured the Chaudhrys during Sunday meeting that the Muttahida will work in unison with the PML-Q but will not encourage any PML-Q leader/worker or parliamentarian (former or sitting) to join the Muttahida," said a PML-Q leader asking not to be

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court on Monday warned Pakistan Railways (PR) authorities, if the department remains unable to pay salaries to its legal advisors, huge residences of officials at Mayo Garden would be sold for this purpose.
Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed made these observations after Railways' legal advisor Sarfraz Cheema stated that salaries have been paid to some legal advisors only. Railways sought time to pay salaries to rest of the legal advisors as department is facing

KARACHI - MQM chief Altaf Husain has congratulated the employees of the Pakistan International Airline (PIA) for solving their problems with the federal government and the national flag carrier's administration through negotiations. He also congratulated Interior Minister Rehman Malik for playing a leading role in solving the problems amicably.
Congratulating PIA pilots, engineers, technicians, airhostesses and other employees, he called upon them to work with diligence.

ISLAMABAD/KARACHI/LAHORE - Sticking to their guns on the demand of removal of PIA MD Ejaz Haroon, the enraged workers of the national carrier continued their protest on the third consecutive day on Thursday, virtually paralysing flight operations countrywide.
The government sent its trouble-shooter, Interior Minister Rehman Malik to convince the angry PIA workers after its two-member ministerial committee comprising Khursid Shah and Ahmad Mukhtar failed to woo the Joint Action

KARACHI - Thousands of employees of the Pakistan Railways (PR) might go on a strike to protest the PR's move to stop providing medicines to them. The PR administration has stopped providing medicines to its employees and their families visiting OPDs of its seven major hospitals and over 40 dispensaries all over the country.
Sources said that the PR has gone ahead with this move despite suspending operations of dozens of passenger trains and increasing fares by 30 percent. Through

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,