For the worker May 1, 2021 On this day – May 1 – every year, the workers of the world remind everyone that they have rights, and that their labour has value. However, this occasion means little to the 57.2 million labourers in Pakistan, out of which over 71 percent fall into the informal labour sector. Many of these labourers are unaware of May Day or Labour Day, and those who are aware know little about the rights that should be available to them under the labour policies devised by Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab. While each of these policies, worked out after labour was one of the subjects devolved to provinces, offer workers different rights, the reality is that very often these facilities are not provided to labourers, especially those making up the informal labour sector.