LAHORE: Provincial Minister for Industries and Trade Mian Aslam Iqbal has said the labour laws would be updated to serve both labourers and employers in the province.
Addressing a tripartite huddle of labourers, industrialists and the government on labour laws at a local hotel on Monday, the minister said a visible change would be conspicuous in every sector of life adding that labour laws would be updated within the ILO's mandate and in accordance with relevant rules and regulations to boost labour welfare. A simple and practical law would be devised for labour welfare, social security and EOBI by consolidating 39 labour laws to expedite labour welfare, he repeated.
Aslam Iqbal said the labour department has done a great job by bringing all the stakeholders to one table for better legislation regarding employers and employees. The draft law, which will be prepared in consultation with each other, will be useful for both the employer and the employee, he said. The time has come to change the 100 years old archaic labour laws that exploit the working classes, he maintained. We have to legislate while keeping in mind the employers and employees' issues, he continued.
Provincial Minister for Labour Ansar Majeed Khan Niazi said improvement of labour laws would change the destiny of industrial workers while ending the exploitation of workers. He said the labour department has been digitised, he added. Rehmatul-lil-Alameen Social Security Hospital is the first medical...
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