Tag: labor
SHC shocked at exploitation of unskilled workers, says minimum pay policy failing to raise...
March 16th, 2021; By Rehan Piracha; LAHORE; The Sindh High Court has expressed its shock over the massive exploitation of unskilled workers, observing that the minimum wage policy has not helped raise their income
Islamabad Emerging From The Lockdown With Infections On The Rise
The government eased restrictions on Pakistan’s partial lockdown claiming that by extending it, the poor would starve. But as soon as businesses opened, people from the higher and middle-income bracket groups were ...
Khairpur District Government Making Children Clean Its Filth
Instead of monitoring other sectors and eliminating the evil of child labor, the municipal committee in Sindh’s Khairpur district has hired children, from 10 to 15 years, for the purpose of cleaning sewers. But besides everything ...
Rights Watch | 21st April 2020
Laborers Desperate for Work: Daily wage laborers in Karachi are risking unsafe travel to other cities to seek out employment due to the prevailing lockdown in Sindh drying up their means of livelihood. Due to bus and taxi services being ...