IN the 1960s, governments started introducing labour welfare schemes primarily comprising benefits such as medical care and cash benefits, old-age pension, housing, free school education, share in company profit and employment for differently abled persons. The medical and pension schemes require regular
PAKISTAN’S first comprehensive occupational safety and health (OSH) profile exposes the inadequacies of worker protection in a country where over 72m people constitute the formal workforce. It arrives against a backdrop of preventable industrial tragedies: the 2012 Baldia factory fire in Karachi,
A silent epidemic of mental health issues is sweeping through workplaces and institutions in Pakistan, leading psychiatrists and mental health experts warned on 21 October 2024 and called for legislative changes to mandate mental health support across all sectors. Speaking at a
A model court has handed down death sentence to a man in a five-year-old case pertaining to the murder of a labour leader. Babar Siraj was found guilty of shooting to death Syed Ashraf Ali, then general secretary of the Functional Labour
The district administration has issued notices for fixed price of bricks Deputy Commissioner Yasir Bhatti, following complaints of rising prices of bricks, convened a meeting of brick kiln owners where it was decided to fix rates in accordance with the markets in
The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC), in collaboration with SPARC and various government bodies, requested the support of NADRA to deploy a Mobile Van System for CNIC registration. This initiative targets minorities and brick kiln workers in Hyderabad and Mirpurkhas, aiming to
In 2023, the Human Welfare Association (HWA) observed ongoing legal setbacks for peasants and rural workers in Sindh. The Government of Sindh (GoS) did not withdraw its appeal against a 2019 Sindh High Court (SHC) ruling that had overturned regressive tenancy laws,
KARACHI: The Department of community health sciences at Aga Khan University (AKU) in collaboration with the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI) conducted a project under which health experts collected and analysed injury and disease-related data of 2,000 patients who worked in
Police on 19 August 2024 claimed to have arrested a man for his alleged involvement in last month’s shooting at a filling station that had left a rider of a ride-hailing service dead. Officials claimed that the suspect and his accomplice were
THE provinces of Sindh and Punjab have, with the assistance of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), prepared draft labour codes. These new codes refashion the current fragmented labour laws. The codes are designed to comply with international labour standards by extending protection to all people who