‘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’.
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Implementation of women agricultural workers law stressed
Speakers demand social security, underscore absence of rules for 2020 law
Two months after the monsoon’s end, women stand in a field of cotton destroyed by the subsequent flooding in Umerkot dis-trict. Hundreds of thousands of acres of standing crops were devastated across Sindh. PHOTO: ONLINE
KARACHI:
Labour activists have stressed on the need to implement the Sindh Women Agricultural Workers Act 2020, demanding social security for agriculture workers.
At a dialogue organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and the Sindh on Friday speakers observed that the absence of rules of business was the main hurdle in implementing the 2020 labour law. The social structure is complicit in the exploitation of agricultural workers in the province, noted HRCP Chairperson Asad Iqbal Butt. Stressing that labour organisations should work together to secure the rights of agricultural workers, he observed that women labourers
Farm workers seek social security, welfare funds
Speakers at woman agricultural workers convention calls for implementation of 2019 law passed in this regard
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HYDERABAD:
Human rights activists and women agricultural farm workers have demanded implementation of the Sindh Women Agricultural Workers Act 2019, and for covering these workers through social security and workers welfare funds. They were speaking at the Women Agriculture Workers Convention, organised by the Sindh Community Foundation (SCF) and Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) in Matiari district on Tuesday.
Syed Nadeem Shah of the Sindh Abadgar Board, a lobbying group of farmers, lamented that a lack of government attention and adequate policies is plunging the agriculture sector in financial straits. The role of women in the agriculture sector is pivotal but their socio-economic conditions are very poor, he acknowledged, emphasising on the need for government provided protection for the