Karachi, July 5: The Sanitation Department of Saddar Town plans to appoint at least 500 workers in basic pay scale-3, but the Municipal Workers Trade Unions’ Alliance (MWTUA) smells something fishy and their leaders plan to resist the move. Chairman MWTUA Syed Zulfiqar Shah and General Secretary Fareed Awan both have declared to strongly resist these appointments as they were being made in violation of the past practice. The two leaders think that there were people in City District Government Karachi (CDGK) who wanted to adjust their favourites. Chairman Syed Zulfiqar Shah, while talking to The News, said that the actual practice to violate laws was adopted in 1994 by the then administrator, Faheem Zaman, who used to pay sums to security guards (providing security to more than … [Read more...]
Labour Force Survey
The Labour Force Survey 2009-10 provides data on (a) age, sex, marital status, literacy, level of education and migration of the population, (b) dimensions of country’s labour force, viz (i) employed labour force classified by, industry, formal & informal sectors, occupation employment status, hours worked and level of education, (ii) occupational safety and health information of the employed persons, and (iii) unemployed labour by level of education and previous experience. Foreword Indicators Summary of Findings Results TABLES Percentage distribution of population by age, sex and area: Pakistan & Provinces Percentage distribution of population by province, area and sex. Percentage distribution of population by age, sex, literacy and level of education: … [Read more...]
Labour Market Dynamics In Pakistan
The bulk of research on labour market conditions in Pakistan has concentrated on the economic activity rate, the number of employed persons or the unemployment rate at a particular point in time (Nasir, 2001). These stock measures of labour market situation are useful from a policy viewpoint as they give a broad indication of the dimension of the problem. For instance, the recent labour force surveys show an increase in the level of open unemployment from 5.9 percent in 1997-98 to 7.8 percent in 1999-2000. There is also an emerging consensus that during the 1990s poverty has increased at the national as well as for rural and urban areas of the country (Qureshi and Arif, 2001). Labour market is considered as the main route for establishing the link between macro policies, the resulting GDP … [Read more...]