Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said that the federal government’s deal with the International Monetary Fund has badly affected industrial growth in the country and.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has joined the league of a few economies in the world where a business can be registered with the provincial and federal authorities from a single online center, the Securities.
SECP Launches Combined Digital Registration with Provincial Agencies
As part of its transformational journey, the SECP has now introduced a single combined digital certificate evidencing registration with SECP and some provincial departments simultaneously.
The SECP continues to strive for reducing physical interaction with the citizens and is focused on providing services through the use of modern technology at the doorstep of the end-users.
This initiative is expected to significantly reduce the overall “Starting a Business” time in Pakistan and would have a positive impact on the country’s ranking on the Doing Business Index.
There are less than 10 jurisdictions globally, where federal and provincial registrations are integrated online on a real-time basis, and Pakistan has also now joined this league.
Call for paying minimum wage, implementing SHC verdict
Karachi
April 4, 2021
Speakers at a seminar have demanded that the government ensure the payment of minimum wage to all the workers, especially janitors of the civic bodies, security guards and filling station workers.
The Pakistan Institute of Labour Education & Research (Piler) held a seminar titled âSituation of Implementation of the Minimum Wages Lawâ at the Karachi Press Club on Saturday. Leaders of various trade unions and civil society groups attended the programme.
Rights activist Naeem Sadiq said the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (Sessi), the Employees Old-age Benefits Institution (EOBI) and the provincial labour department should implement the March 10 decision of the Sindh High Court (SHC) for paying minimum wage to the janitorial staff.
‘Expand social protection cover for workers’
Employers should provide complete social protection coverage for their employees to improve their enterprise s productivity, said Employers Federation of Pakistan (EFP) vice-president Zaki Ahmed Khan on Tuesday.
He expressed these views while addressed an awareness session focused on social security schemes in Sindh. The session was jointly organised by the EFP and the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Khan pointed out that just 42 per cent of secured workers were covered under social security schemes and increasing the coverage of these schemes was the need of the hour, so that most number of employees could benefit from them.