EOBI pensioners
The six hundred thousand (0.6 million) pensioners of the Employees Old-Age Benefits Institution (EOBI) were happy to receive increased pension in April 2020. Their pension was increased from Rs6500 to…
Labour schemes
IN the 1960s, governments started introducing labour welfare schemes primarily comprising benefits such as medical care and cash benefits, old-age pension, housing, free school education, share in company profit and…
Reform agenda
EXCEPT for the 92.97-metre javelin throw by our spirited lad from Mian Channu, Pakistan has been left behind the rest of the world, economically, technologically, and on all counts of…
Stateless workers
OF the 79 miners who have died since Jan 1, 2024, in Pakistan’s deadly coal mines, not a single one was registered with the EOBI. They were all born as…
Labour welfare
WITH the growth of business and industry in Pakistan during the 1960s, a need was felt to improve the workers’ living conditions. A social security scheme was introduced to provide…
Minimum wage
AT present, there are three laws providing for the regulation of the wages of workers employed in certain industries. The oldest one is the Payment of Wages Act, 1936, which…
Workers’ benefit
BY virtue of the 18th Amendment, all labour laws were devolved to the provinces, which then got the authority to amend them or make new laws. They have been doing…
We, the 1.21pc
I BELONG to Pakistan’s 75-plus age group. According to the 2017 census, my contemporaries, who were born in 1944 or earlier, constitute only 1.21pc of the total population of this…
Simple lessons
IMAGINE a country where 99.9 per cent of the citizens cannot file their complex and convoluted tax returns without hiring the services of tax lawyers. Imagine a country whose railway…
Extra baggage
UNDISPUTEDLY, the most important, most versatile and most indispensable person in a government office is the naib qasid, often the only moving component of an inert piece of machinery. He…
