SIALKOT City News

Woman workers’ rights awareness stressed
From Our Correspondent
SIALKOT: Experts have stressed enhancing awareness among woman workers about their rights.
Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) Vice President Malik Naseer, and other speakers stated this while addressing a Women Workers Conventions at SCCI under the auspices of different NGOs.
They said awareness about relevant labour laws was essential to increase productivity of woman workers in different industrial sectors.
They maintained that it was necessary to use women potential for the uplift of country, adding that industrial labourers should be accorded respect and woman workers should be given wages equal to men, be granted right to form unions, be allotted Employees Old-Age Benefit Institution (EOBI) cards, be provided permanent jobs and other facilities, because tension-free workers would guarantee sustainable industrial progress.