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SBP: a pensioner’s plea
May 20: FOR easing financial hardships of serving employees, as well as of pensioners, the government of Pakistan announces each year 15 to 20 per cent increase in salaries and pension of the above-mentioned persons. However, many corporations, the SBP included, do not follow the instructions announced by the finance ministry during presentation of … Continue Reading
KMC staff salaries
KARACHI, May 20: The Karachi Metropolitan Corporation on May 18 issued show-cause notices to more than half a dozen of its departments for failing to pay salaries to more than 10,000 employees with the month close to an end. The administrator directed the officials’ concerned to ensure timely payment of salaries to employees mainly between … Continue Reading
Paramedics continue protest
LAHORE, May 20: PARAMEDICS continued their protest on May 18 by staging a sit-in and boycotting duties in outdoor wards of Ganga Ram Hospital. Punjab Paramedical Alliance (PPA) had organised the protest demonstration at Ganga Ram Hospital while sit-in was observed on Queens Road in which the protesters demanded allocation of health professional … Continue Reading
Railways workers demand raise
Karachi, May 20: Employees of the Pakistan Railway Karachi division have demanded to increase their salaries keeping in mind the rising inflation, as they cannot make both ends meet with their meager wages. This was demanded in a meeting of workers with General Manager (GM) Operations Junaid Qureshi on May 18. Senior trade union leaders … Continue Reading
Protest of DRAPP employees continues
Islamabad, May 20: Continuing their protest on second consecutive day on May 18, the employees of Federal Dera Unit component of Drought Recovery Assistant Plan Project (DRAPP) expressed their concern over the silence of the federal government and other related authorities towards their problem. Protesting in front of the office of GEO, … Continue Reading
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Recommended Reading “Need of Federal Mandate on Industrial Relation Laws”
Industrial Relations Ordinance 2011 is set to expire on 17th March, 2012, and the Parliament needs to act before 17th March 2012 to prevent the expiration of the Industrial Relations Ordinance 2011. Read a Briefing Paper on the Need of Federal Mandate on Industrial Relation Laws produced by PILDAT. This paper has been authored by Mr. Babar Sattar in the backdrop of the expected expiration of Industrial Relations Ordinance 2011. Read Now!

