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Contract employment is here to stay

“Contract Labour is understood as covering all situations in which work is performed for a person who is not the worker’s employer under labour law as it now stands, but…

Labour legislation

THE domain of labour laws was devolved to the provinces as a result of the abolition of the Constitution’s Concurrent List in 2010 through the 18th Amendment. The centre was…

Terms Of Employment

Terms of employment

The Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders) Ordinance, 1968 was one of the best ever labor laws promulgated in Pakistan. It was considered as the magna carta of labour legislation…

New Forms Of Modern Slavery

New forms of modern slavery

While the world’s nations seemingly outlawed slavery and servitude under the UDHR in 1948, it not only exists today but also generates an annual profit of $150 billion, as estimated…

Protecting The Gig Economy

Protecting the gig economy

Gone are the days when people used to work in an enterprise for decades and leave only on superannuation. With the advancement in technology, various kinds of digital labour platforms…

Time to end neoliberal monetary policy well overdue

‘This chapter has shown that the NMPC [New Monetary Policy Consensus] is limited in four important ways. Firstly, it is based on doubtful assumptions, unwarranted generalisations, overly optimistic expectations about…

Politics over economics

This is the second of a two-part series on Pakistani administration’s focus on domestic factors while ignoring external factors which have a much greater relevance in formulation of our domestic…

Issue-based politics

TODAY is day 15 of the UN’s 16 days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign. Before you stop reading, bored by the prospect of a feminist diatribe, consider that 28…

Sindh Labour Code

OVER the last four decades or so, at least three labour commissions were formed to consolidate and simplify labour laws. However, the suggestions they made and the draft legislation they…

Population in 2024

Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world, bids farewell to 2024 – and yet the unfinished population growth business concerns politicians, leaders, academics, and development practitioners. As the…