US workers, employers test ‘unlimited vacation’
Unlimited vacation policies, which have so far been adopted by only a handful of US businesses, have been embraced by both workers and their employers, who say the flexibility increases…
‘To working fathers’
As an experienced audit professional, I’m no stranger to the long hours and intense demands that often define our field. These pressures can take a toll – not just physically…
It’s graduation season
‘Tis graduation season around the world, the time new graduates are handed blank paper scrolls on a stage for on-stage photo-ops and graduate caps are tossed in the air But…
Low-cost housing: need for prudence
There is an ongoing housing crisis in several European countries attributed to locals renting out to tourists, prompting anti-tourism protests in Spain and Portugal, while in Pakistan all administrations, have…
Labour matters
PAKISTAN has ratified 36 conventions of the International Labour Organisation, with two of them relating to the formation of unions and collective bargaining bodies agents. As the unions of Pakistan…
America’s last throw of dice
ISRAEL has been called America’s unsinkable ship in the Middle East. Terrifyingly accurate Iranian missiles have been piercing its acclaimed Iron Dome to target the ship’s hull as it were. The war…
A fairy-tale budget
Over the last three decades at least, the people of Pakistan have had little to cheer about the budget. This year, however, Budget 2025-26 has left them – including industrialists,…
The maleficent
Empathy and compassion are human defining attributes yet no other living being remains ever-seduced by the primal urge of enslaving one of its own. We are fortunate indeed to have…
Respect the rickshaw
After daily and frightfully shocking traffic incidents that mostly involved heavy transport vehicles like dumper trucks and water tankers and took the life of many innocent citizens there has been…