Punjab government is pursuing the policy to expand industrial development for provision of productive employment and ensuring free and quality vocational education and training facilities to the growing labour force in the province to tackle rising unemployment and alleviate poverty, said Chief Minister Punjab Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif during a meeting with the delegation of Pakistan Workers' Federation (PWF) here on Sunday.
The PWF delegation was led by its General Secretary Khurshid Ahmed. Shahbaz Sharif said no society could achieve success without ensuring dignity of workers and promoting economic and social well being of the working class. The government would take effective measure to ensure enforcement of labour laws in the industrial and commercial establishments for ensuring safety and promotion of cordial labour-management relations, he added.
He assured the delegation that no worker in the Irrigation Department declared surplus would be retrenched and terminated, saying they would be absorbed against vacant posts. He declared that Government of Punjab would sympathetically consider establishing fair price shops to provide essential items of daily life at ex-stock rate to the workers to ease their sufferings against price hike. Earlier the delegation apprised the Chief Minister of economic and social problems being faced by the workers.