SHC upholds Sindh govt’s minimum wage notification

KARACHI   -  High Court of Sindh has issued the verdict against writ petitions filed by Employers Federation of Pakistan and other respondents pleading to nullify minimum-wages notification of Sindh government. According to a PILER statement on Friday, the detailed verdict, the court asserted that soaring inflation, economic instability, and dearth of health facilities hampered the life of a common worker to live and feed its family peacefully. Quoting all the names of respondents and petitioners, the court asserted in the written verdict that all the writ petition against Sindh government’s notification for minimum wages Rs25,000 in the province by Employers Federation and other factory owners are disposed of, hence, the notification stands legal and just. PILER along with Right-based activists and civil society organizations striving to achieve social justice and civil liberty for the working class of Pakistan, said Karamat Ali outside the premises of High Court after judgement. PILER strongly applaud the decision of division bench of High Court of Sindh and strongly advocates that social-justice and economic stability is directly proportional to wellbeing of working-class of Pakistan. Earlier in the court PILER Executive Director Karamat Ali, Liaqat Sahi Democratic Workers Federation, Nasir Mansoor NTUF and other labour leaders pleaded the honorable judges to examine the miseries of labour community on factual grounds by quoting the references of international labour conventions and labour movements in the world. Karamat Ali narrated that strong judicial system was mandatory to safeguard basic human rights of labour and ordinary citizen. At this movement PILER, while congratulating all labour-right activists on this auspicious time, reaffirm organisational commitment to struggle for the justice and equality for the working class of Pakistan.

 

 

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