PTI lawmakers boycott Sindh Assembly proceedings to protest against ban on eight MPAs
July 3, 2021
The lawmakers of the largest opposition party in the Sindh Assembly, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), on Friday continued their boycott of the proceedings of the assembly session in protest against the speaker’s decision to bar eight legislators of the party from attending the session.
The leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly, Haleem Adil Sheikh, said the PTI MPAs had boycotted the session to protest against suspension of the eight MPAs of the party. The eight PTI lawmakers, including parliamentary leader of the PTI in the House Bilal Ahmed Ghaffar, were suspended from the current session of the provincial legislature owing to their unruly conduct last Monday when they had brought a charpoy in the assembly as a mock coffin of democracy.
Organisations having five or more workers may register for social security scheme
June 27, 2021
Any commercial or industrial establishment in Sindh having minimum five workers or more is eligible to get registered with the provincial Social Security Scheme being run under the aegis of the Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution (SESSI).
This fact was highlighted as SESSI held its budget session on Saturday with Education and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani in the chair as chairman of its Governing Body.
The minister said the social security scheme had been introduced in the province to provide the best possible facilities related to the welfare and well-being of the labourers and their family members.
Coronavirus vaccination centres will be established at all the hospitals under the administrative control of the Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution for vaccinating the labourers in.
The writer is a consultant in employee relations at AKUH and teaches labour welfare laws at IBA.
EVERY year May 1 is observed as International Labour Day in several countries including Pakistan to commemorate the labour movement which ushered in various reforms such as capping work hours at eight and paid leave.
In Pakistan, seminars and get-togethers are organised on the day by the federal and the provincial governments as well as labour federations that highlight the miserable and distressful conditions of our workers. They also point out the flagrant violation of workers’ welfare laws regarding medical and old-age pension benefits by employers, facilitated by government functionaries.