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…
Old-age security
The Employees Old-Age Benefits Act, 1976 was promulgated with a view to providing benefits to those employed in industrial, commercial and other organisations. At present, it is applicable to establishments…
Helping the big guns get bigger!
The trickle-down theory supported by the PML-N leadership appears to be stagnating - and not entirely because of external factors as the Dar-led Finance Ministry would have us believe but…
Restoring benefits
On Feb 26, 2011, the Sindh High Court held five amendments to the labour laws brought about by the then government through the Finance Act, 2007 to be ultra vires.…
Devolving labour
By virtue of the 18th Amendment introduced in April 2010, labour laws were omitted from the Concurrent Legislative List in the Constitution and devolved to the provinces. It was stated…
Money after injury
The Ittefaq Foundry & Works at Kot Lakhpat near Lahore was nationalised in January 1972 by the first PPP government and renamed Lahore Engineering & Foundry Ltd (Lefo). Soon thereafter,…
Public-private partnerships
There is unanimity of view that Pakistan faces enormous deficiencies in its infrastructure, particularly the energy sector, that is slowing down the rate of growth and creating stress and disenchantment…
Worker protection
Fifty years ago, Dawn reported that Gen Ayub “reiterated his Government’s determination to break up the concentration of wealth and ensure equitable distribution of national resources, which belonged collectively to…
eGovernment: SECP’s eServices greatly help business entities
During most part of the last decade, the SECP enjoyed a very good reputation for innovative and productive use of information technology at national and international levels. The untiring efforts…
Zardari vs the Sharifs
The general public is increasingly being inconvenienced, which to many is a mild word compared to the actual state of affairs, as a direct offshoot of poor performance of nearly…
