Tag: labour movement
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Lahore: APCA Protest for Approval of Demands
On October 31, as part of weekly district-level protests across Punjab, APCA (All Pakistan Clerks Association) joined with various organizations in Lahore to protest against the black law of Leave Encashment, privatization of government schools, and other workers’ demands in front of the Civil Secretariat Lahore. The central rally started from the McLeod Road office…
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Faisalabad: Allied Hospital’s 220 Employees Terminated Without Payment of Three Months’ Salaries
Firewall Security Company has forcibly terminated 220 employees of Allied Hospital without paying three months’ salaries. It is being reported that the company’s contract has expired. Workers were already facing severe difficulties due to extremely low salaries of PKR 25,000-35,000 (USD 89-125), but then they started receiving salaries with delays, and for the past three…
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Report: Pakistan’s Growing Crisis of Bankrupt Economy!
The Ministry of Economic Affairs has informed Parliament that over the past five years, from July 2018 to June 2023, the state has acquired external loans of $57.27 billion. These figures don’t yet include any IMF loans. Currently, Pakistan is making annual payments of approximately $25 billion on these loans, most of which is interest…
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Lahore: Metro Employees Forcibly Terminated Without Salary Payment, Employees Protest, Metro Service Suspended
The security company’s contract with Punjab Mass Transit Authority had expired and was awarded to a new company. Metro service employees work under various private companies, which are no less exploitative of employees. Workers are being paid less than the government-mandated minimum monthly wage of 37,000 rupees (132 USD). Cleaning staff and security guards are…
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Punjab Government’s Anti-Worker Policies Lead to Termination of 750 Water Management Employees… What’s the Solution?
750 employees working under the National Program for Improvement of Water Courses (NPIW-II) in Punjab’s Agriculture Department’s Water Management section, who had been employed on contract for twenty years, have been forcibly terminated by the Punjab government. Despite the government providing a written one-year extension to the National Program for Improvement of Water Courses 2,…
