Hidden labour
HOME-BASED work is a euphemistic phrase. There are countless women workers engaged in industrial labour from their homes on an informal and piece-rate basis. The labour outsourced to women includes…
Dams fund: fundamental constitutional questions
Pakistan is faced with a tremendous scarcity of water. Successive Governments failed to pay attention to planning and management of this invaluable natural resource for future human, agriculture and industrial…
The rebel patriot
“Graveyards are full of indispensible men” is the rule that proves exceptions such as Asma Jahangir. Can there be a more precise measure of a life fully lived than an…
Social security
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines 'social security' as "the principle or practice or a programme of public provision (as through social insurance or assistance) for the economic security and social…
No labour reform
The world of labour has gone through great turbulence. Globalisation, restructuring, deregulation of economies and technological changes have reshaped labour relations. Precarious, informal employment and diverse contractual forms of work…
Workers’ welfare
The Industrial Relations Ordinance, 1969 is the last of the labour laws enacted to oversee the running of industrial and commercial enterprises. The process of labour welfare legislation began with…
PMDC devises new faculty migration policy
Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has approved a new faculty migration policy under which teachers cannot join a new medical college unless the institution where they are serving have…
Digital technology now changing the lives of pensioners in Pakistan
In our country the spectacle of hundreds of aged citizens, both men and women, queued in and outside bank branches to collect their pensions is not rare. These old men…
A witch hunt
It is a known fact that Imran Khan has been trying to get into the corridors of power by riding on the crutches of the praetorian powers, as was the…
Labour welfare
May Day or Labour Day is celebrated in remembrance of the workers who went on strike and were killed by the Chicago police on May 3 and 4, 1886. The…
