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, par TARIQ Farooq
The government-established Labor Codes were unanimously rejected, and it was demanded that the state issue a gazette notification for a minimum wage of Rs40,000 for workers.
At a multi-party labor conference organised by Haqooq-e-Khalq Party at the Lahore Press Club, Pakistan (…)
, by JUNAIDI Ikram, YASIN Aamir
In the federal capital, Awami Workers Party (AWP) and Anjuman Rehribaan Islamabad (ARI) paid tribute to historical working class struggles. AWP leader Aasim Sajjad said Pakistan’s working class was more exploited than ever before with only 2pc of the labour force registered in any formal trade (…)
, by JAC
Joint Action Committee for People’s Rights (JAC) condoles the death of Mr. Mohammad Asif, who self-immolated at the premise of Lahore High Court (LHC) on 25 February 2025 in protest of illegal and anti-worker policies of his company, Nestle, where he was employed for more than 16 years.
Asif (…)
, by The Express Tribune (Pakistan)
KARACHI: Experts and union leaders demanded on Friday that employees in the garment and textile industries be given their due rights, including standard salaries and protections, while rejecting the Sindh Labour Code, which they termed an agenda to weaken the agency and rights of workers (…)
, by AASI Asad Ur Rehman
Government Employees In Pakistan are protesting against the latest reforms, privatisation and amid to get job protection.
Public sector employees from every region of Pakistan are showing their power by striking against laws that undermine their jobs, personhood, and Pakistan’s basic legal (…)
, by Dawn (Pakistan)
LAHORE: All Pakistan Wapda Hydro Electric Workers Union General Secretary Khurshid Ahmad, in a press statement, said that according to some media reports power sector union activities like the strike had been banned by the caretaker government and clarified that the employees could carry out (…)
, by Labour Education Foundation (Pakistan)
We post below the self-presentation of the Labour Education Foundation (LEF) Pakistan.
Established in 1993 as a non-government organization, Labour Education Foundation (LEF) is an initiative of renowned trade union leaders, human rights and women rights activists to organize, capacitate and (…)
At its national conference on the right to dignity of labour and decent work for all, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) observed that the backbone of any true democratic movement is a strong labour movement that advocates for social protection, fair wages without discrimination, the (…)
, by HISAM Zeenat
JUST six months before the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world, trade unions had reiterated the urgency of protecting workers’ rights on a global platform and warned against “an unprecedented level of income inequality, shrinking democratic space and an age of anger where corporations have too much (…)
, by PTUDC
On September 14, at Parda Bagh Peshawar, a new history was set in the Pakistani working-class Movement. Thousands of workers, Government employees and pensioners from more than 61 labour organizations, trade unions and pensioners associations united under the umbrella of All Pakistan Employees, (…)
, by UR-REHMAN Zia
A report launched on the seventh anniversary of the deadly fire in Baldia Town’s garment factory that killed over 250 labourers says that although multiple initiatives aimed at addressing workplace safety have been initiated in Pakistan since then, they lack the necessary elements that must be (…)
, by PTUDC
Qamar-Uz-Zaman Khan, a veteran trade unionist was arrested on Saturday, June 22 for organising a demonstration against the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Sadiqabad, a sub-district in central Pakistan.
Khan holds the office of Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign’s general secretary and (…)
, by EBRAHIM Zofeen T.
Workers struggle with antiquated equipment, unscrupulous owners, and corrupt labour inspectors and labour courts. Unions and progressive NGOs are making only slow progress in the mining sector.
It was 2am, on May 7, in the village of Shalmano. Seven dead bodies had just arrived in the area (…)
With the horrific mine accident that killed six workers in the Kalat district in Balochistan on 4 April 2018, at least 11 workers at mines in different parts of Pakistan have died since the end of March.
The deadly mine safety crisis continues to claim workers’ lives in Pakistan. Six workers (…)
Ten IndustriALL Global Union affiliates are urging the government of Pakistan to ratify ILO Convention 176 (C176) on Safety and Health in Mines. This follows a decision by IndustriALL’s Executive Committee in November 2017, for a global campaign to end fatalities in Pakistani mines.
The (…)
, by FAROOQ Asad
One of the largest brands in Pakistan’s apparel industry, Khaadi, has found itself at the centre of a growing civil campaign against inhumane workplace conditions have been held in Karachi and Lahore over the last week by workers and activists alleging high-handedness and unfair labour (…)
, by BALOCH Saher
Gadani, in south-western Pakistan near Karachi, host the world’s third largest ship breaking yard. A gas cylinder exploded when workers were dismantling an oil tanker, causing the ship to catch fire. Some 59 workers were badly burned and many people reportedly jumped overboard to escape the (…)
, by AHMAD Iftikhar
An ILO Report, released in September 2016, has estimated that more than 40 million people are victims of modern slavery today.
Of these, 25m are engaged in forced labour and the other 15m are victims of forced marriages. There is also a gender and age dimension: 71pc of modern slavery victims are women and girls while one in four, i.e., 25pc are children.
There are many manifestations of modern slavery: forced labour including labour trafficking, sex trafficking including child sex trafficking, (...)
, by IUF
PepsiCo management at the company’s Frito-Lay plant in Lahore, Pakistan has responded to the formation and official registration of a trade union with 650 members by harassing and transferring union officers and seeking to violate the union’s collective bargaining rights by creating a bogus (…)
, by DE LAURI Antonio
Debt is everywhere a tool of social control, and no more so than in the brick kilns of Pakistani Punjab, where it travels across generations.
Central and south Asian brick kilns have long attracted the attention of humanitarian agencies, activists and scholars as sites of severe labour (…)
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