LAHORE (PR): All Pakistan Workers Confederation, in a press statement issued by veteran trade union leader Khurshid Ahmed, generation secretary, Rubeena Jamil, president, Yousuf Baloch, chairman, and Akbar Ali Khan, additional general secretary, have welcomed the positive order issued by the Cabinet Division of Government of Pakistan vide order No. 8/10/2013.E.2 dated 20th October, allowing compensable facilities to the widow and their children of the government service who die during the course of employment including grant of Rs 2.5 million as special assistance and continuous full employment of pension and recruitment of their either son or daughter from BPS 1 to 16 on permanent basis and other facilities.
It was demanded to the federal government not only get order fully supplanted for the dependents of the deceased employees in the federal and provincial governments but also independent semi government organizations at the earliest. It was also strongly demanded for payment of GP Fund and provision of plot at the rate of 2%.