July 15, 2021
KARACHI: Sindh Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani has said the Sindh government has duly exercised its power to notify Rs25,000 as the minimum monthly wage for labourers in the province.
Talking to The News on Wednesday, Ghani completely negated the impression that the Sindh government had not completed due procedure as prescribed in the Sindh Minimum Wages Act-2015 while notifying the latest minimum wage for labourers. He clarified that it was basically the prerogative of the provincial government/cabinet to decide the minimum wage for workers in the province.
The minister said that the Sindh Minimum Wages Board was only supposed to give its recommendation to the provincial government as the cabinet takes the final decision in this regard.
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Minimum wage policy has neither raised income nor stopped exploitation, says SHC
Karachi
March 16, 2021
The Sindh High Court has observed that the minimum wage policy has not helped increase the income of domestic workers or protected them from exploitation by their employers.
Disposing of a petition seeking the payment of the minimum wage to all janitorial workers of the cantonment boards in Karachi, a division bench comprising Justice Mohammad Shafi Siddiqui and Adnan-ul-Karim Memon observed that the janitorial staff (sweepers) working on daily wages or a contract basis got a little amount per month.
The court observed that the enforcement of the minimum wage law is not the only problem for the time being; the sheer injustice and massive exploitation of the legal rights of hard-working unskilled minimum wage workers is also an issue.