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Sindh launches Benazir Mazdoor Card
Beneficiaries to register with SESSI, pay 6% minimum wage as contribution
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari addresses a press conference in Karachi. SCREENGRAB
KARACHI:
The Sindh government distributed the Benazir Mazdoor Card to labourers on Friday.
At a ceremony held at the Chief Minister s House, the provincial government launched the card under which labourers across Sindh would be entitled to avail benefits such as education, health and financial assistance under the Sindh Workers Welfare Fund Act 2014 and amendment 2018 provided they register themselves with the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution (SESSI) and pay contribution at the rate of six percent of the minimum wage fixed by the provincial government.
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.
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.
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