Peasant women most vulnerable in Sindh, webinar told
Karachi
April 18, 2021
Speakers at a webinar said on Saturday the landless peasants and agricultural workers were not the centre of any of the relevant policies in the country, particularly in the Sindh province.
The Hari Welfare Association (HWA), a peasant rights body, organised the webinar to mark International Peasants Rights Day.
Nuzhat Shireen, chairperson of the Sindh Commission on the Status of Women (SCSW), said that peasant women did not have access to information about their registration under the Sindh Agriculture Workers Act of 2019, nor did they know how to unionise and be able to access food and livelihoods resources.
KARACHI: Sindh Information Minister Syed Nasir Hussain Shah has said that the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) is a national asset and the provincial government will be more than happy to run it in collaboration with its employees.
Speaking at a press conference along with several trade unionists at the Karachi Press Club here on Saturday, the minister said that the government could run PSM like the Thar coal projects, where locals had also been involved.
“What has happened to the Steel Mills is nothing short of a tragedy. Friends are being favoured. Workers are being destroyed. We ask the federal government to not destroy this asset, not let its workers starve. But what to say about the federal government that takes a U-turn on every turn,” he said.
Karachi
April 11, 2021
The Sindh government has said that it is going to offer complete support if the federal government intends to operate the Pakistan Steel Mills (PSM) with the only precondition that its workers should not be dismissed from service.
The provincial information and local government minister, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, said this on Saturday while speaking at a press conference along with PSM workers at the Karachi Press Club.
In case the Centre was not willing to operate the PSM, then Sindh government was ready to run it in partnership with its workers.
Shah said one viable way to operate the non-functional PSM could be the option of a public-private partnership, as one best example of forging such a partnership was the Thar coal energy project launched by the Sindh government.
Naeem Sadiq speaks at the Press Club on Saturday. White Star
KARACHI: The Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler) on Saturday held a seminar on the ‘Situation of implementation of the minimum wages law’ in the light of Sindh High Court’s decision regarding the janitors who work for the cantonment.
It was demanded that the government ensure payment of the minimum wages to all workers especially the janitors working with civic bodies, security guards and petrol pump workers.
The event was held at the Karachi Press Club.
Rights activist Naeem Sadiq, the main petitioner in the matter, said that he had been contacted by a few of his friends concerned about very low wages of sanitary workers, security guards, etc.
Over 60% workers paid below minimum wage
Speakers lament no implementation of minimum wage law in Pakistan
Ppi
April 04, 2021
KARACHI:
Minimum wage in Pakistan is lower than the living wage and even then, over 60% of the workers in the country are not receiving it, said Right activist Naim Sadiq
Speaking at a seminar titled ‘Situation of Implementation of the Minimum Wages Law’ on Saturday, he lamented that despite the existence of minimum wage law in Pakistan, there was no implementation of the ruling.
“There are no social security services or any kind of dearness allowance for workers,” he said. “Over 95% of workers in Pakistan do not receive any social security facility from the state institutions.”