Noted economist Dr Kaiser Bengali said on Saturday there was a difference between social safety net and social security.“Social safety net is a capitalistic welfare concept. Market economies.
Senior economist Dr Kaiser Bengali said on Wednesday Pakistan’s economy was surviving on “a ventilator” as it had reached the verge of a technical default, surviving entirely on.
‘Concept of labour rights is in accordance with Quran and Hadith’
Karachi
May 16, 2021
Less than one per cent of the labour force in Pakistan has formed unions, which shows that our labour is not organised. The lack of trade unions and collective bargaining agents has been attributed to religion for some strange reason as people are confused about it.
Karamat Ali, labour activist and the executive director of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler), said this during a webinar titled ‘Labour Rights in Islam: Modern Relevance in Pakistan?’ organised by the Ziauddin Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Ziauddin University.
‘Farmers in Sindh receive Rs6,000 per month’
National
May 2, 2021
KARACHI: Marking International Labour Day on Saturday, the Hari Welfare Association (HWA) lamented that in the rural areas of Sindh, millions of workers in agriculture and brick kilns are without social security and decent work, including the minimum wage.
HWA head Akram Khaskheli claimed that these workers hardly received Rs6,000 per month in salary against the Rs17,500 minimum wage promised by the Sindh government for unskilled workers in 2019. The HWA stated that because of unemployment and lack of education and skills, millions of young people were forced to work around 14 hours a day at grocery shops, restaurants, and workshops just for Rs5,000 per month in rural parts of Sindh, and among them were women and girls who picked cotton and chillies but received meagre wages.