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Labor Rightsin Pakistan
Ahsan
Pawan
Asad
Sumair
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Labor union or a trade union is a
voluntary organization of workers formed to bargain
collectively with managementabout wagers and terms of
employment, such as workinghours, over time, holiday,
leaves and other benefits.
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• In case of a labor or industrial
dispute the most effectiveweapon that unions can use is to
call a strike which Is walkout andwork stoppage. On the other
hand, if the management shuts
down the work place to pressure
workers to accepts its term.
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The constitution of Pakistan contains a
range of provisions with regards tolabor rights.
Fundamental rights and principle of
policy.
Labor Rights
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Article 17
Article 11 of the
Constitution prohibits all forms of slavery,
forced labor and child labor;
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Child Labor in Pakistan’ is an issue that has
been discussed a lot. Google spews out aplethora of articles, stories, reports,
pictures, interviews, documentaries,
seminars, conferences, forums, criticism
and debates on the subject. Yet here in
2012 what we see is that instead of anyimprovement there are more children
and there is more child labor.
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Article 17
Provides for a fundamentalright to exercise the freedom
of association and the right toform unions;
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Article 18
Proscribes the rights of its citizens toenter upon any lawful profession or
occupation and to conduct and lawfultrade or business
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Article 37
Provision for securing just and humaneconditions of work, ensuring that
children and women are notemployed in vacations unsuited to
their age or sex, and for maternity
benefits for women in appointment
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Pakistan’s labor laws trace their
origination to legislation inheritedfrom India at the time of partition of
the indo-Pak subcontinent .
Labor Legislation
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Under the constitution labor is
regarded as a ‘concurrent subject’,
which means that it is the
responsibility of both the federaland provincial Governments.
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Every employer in an industrial or
commercial establishment is
required to issue a formal
appointment letter at the time of
employment of each worker.
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Termination of the contract the
services of a permanent workercannot be terminated for any reason
other than misconduct unless one
month’s notice or wager in lieu there
of has been furnished by the
employer or by the worker if he orshe so chooses to leave his or her
service .
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All Pakistan trade union congress
(APTUC), national labor federation(NLF) and national trade union
federation of Pakistan (NTUFP) said
besides trade union organization
more than 60 political parties had
been invited to participate in theseminar .
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