Islam advocates the dignity of labour and government of Pakistan is determined to protecting the rights of labour community according to the teachings of Islam by celebrating May 1 as labour day in the country and taking dynamic steps for the welfare of workers.
May 1st, International Workers Day, commemorates the historic struggle of working people throughout the world and is recognised in every country except the United States, Canada, and South Africa.
In 1884, the Federation of Organised Trades and Labour Unions passed a resolution stating that eight hours would constitute a legal day's work from and after May 1, 1886.
The resolution called for a general strike to achieve the goal, since legislative methods had already failed.
With workers being forced to work ten, twelve, and fourteen hours a day, rank-and-file support for the eight-hour movement grew rapidly, despite the indifference and hostility of many union leaders.
By April 1886, 250,000 workers were involved in the May Day movement. The heart of the movement was in Chicago, organised primarily by the anarchist International Working People's Association.
"Labor Day differs in every essential way from the other holidays of the year in any country," said Samuel Gompers, founder and long-time president of the American Federation of Labour.
"All other holidays are in a more or less degree connected with conflicts and battles of man's prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by one nation over another. Labour Day ... is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, races or nation," he added.