The Karachi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has recommended that provincial employees social security institution hospitals should make arrangements to set up rehabilitation centres for drug addicted workers.
The Chamber also recommended that the workers welfare fund, which is lying unutilised, should be utilised for providing education facilities to workers' children, besides other welfare measures, and the levy of Rs 100 per employed person per annum as education cess should be done away with.
KCCI sub-committee report on labour and social welfare has recommended that only trained and qualified persons should be appointed as Inspector of Factories and Mines.
There should also be a provision in the rules that all notified inspectors should be properly qualified and should be given necessary on-job training before they are detailed for inspection duty in the field.
The committee also suggested that labour courts, which also enjoy the power of section 30 magistrate and are presently trying cases for violation of standing orders, should be given power to try offences under the proposed ordinance of health and safety, instead of the judicial magistrates , and should not be dealt under CrPC.
The committee also recommended that social security institutions where the workers of factories are mostly registered, and contribution for their health care is being made by the employers, should be made responsible under the law to keep proper health profile of every registered worker and his dependent family members to ensure that the worker is not suffering with any contagious disease.
Similarly, the provision should be made in the new ordinance that vaccination to prevent workers against contagious diseases should also be arranged.