‘Need to change, improve legislation on labour’
Activists decry ‘lack of will’ among parliamentarians, industrialists to improve workers’ conditions
KARACHI:
Labour activists called on Thursday for changes and improvement in legislation to benefit the labour class and decried industrialists for not fulfilling their responsibilities to ensure that workers are given due rights.
Even when labour laws in the country state that workers’ rights be displayed in factories, industrialists are simply not interested in making their workers aware of their rights, said Sindh Labour Federation (SLF) President Shafiq Ghauri at a stakeholder’s meeting focusing on ‘Labour Laws Campaign to Upgrade and Secure the Coverage of Labour Laws and Social Protection of the Workers’.