The participants at the events raised the demand for fixing the minimum wage at Pakistani Rupees (PKR) 50,000 per month, an increase in workers' salaries keeping in view the inflation, doubling the pension and withdrawing all recent increases in the tariffs of water, electricity and petroleum products.
Trade unions and labour organisations welcomed newly-elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s announcement of a 10 per cent raise in basic pay and pensions of the federal government employees.