Trade unionists, political activists and workers on Sunday demanded that the government raise the wages of labourers in proportion to the price hike, withdraw all anti-worker policies and allow.
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Labour and human rights leaders, family members and colleagues on Saturday paid glowing tributes to Sharafat Ali, a committed labour rights activist and former joint director of the Pakistan.
‘Concept of labour rights is in accordance with Quran and Hadith’
Karachi
May 16, 2021
Less than one per cent of the labour force in Pakistan has formed unions, which shows that our labour is not organised. The lack of trade unions and collective bargaining agents has been attributed to religion for some strange reason as people are confused about it.
Karamat Ali, labour activist and the executive director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler), said this during a webinar titled ‘Labour Rights in Islam: Modern Relevance in Pakistan?’ organised by the Ziauddin Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Ziauddin University.