Our exploited workforce Should the privileged class not break its unholy silence and speak for the rights of 73.8 million exploited workers? What would make a society so immeasurably callous as to allow its 73.8 million workers to be hugely underpaid, exploited, made to work for long hours, kept out of the social security net and be prevented from receiving old-age benefits? Of Pakistan’s 73.8 million workers, only eight million are registered with the Employees Old-age Benefit Institution (EOBI), less than three million with the four provincial Employees’ Social Security institutions and about 40 million are paid less than the minimum legal wage.