Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Sindh Information Secretary Ladies Wing Sindh, Sharmila Farooqui, on Saturday paid rich tribute to the martyrs of Chicago who laid down their lives for the achievement of labour community rights.
In a statement issued on the eve of May Day, she said the government had ratified innovative workers-friendly laws in the country as per the vision of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto, which had brought largest socio-economic development in the country.
She said the PPP was a pro-business, pro-workers and pro-farmers party, and striving hard to meet the international labour standards to promote women and men at equal basis so that they could earn decent wages with fringe benefits and dignity. She said the PPP derived its strength from the labour class that was why its all successive government had fought for rights to workers community. "Let us pledge once again to support working people for achievement of their rights deprived by dictatorial regimes," she said.
She said it was the main slogans of PPP to provide bread, clothing and housing to people at all costs. She stated that the government had introduced a new labour policy under monthly minimum salary had been raised from Rs 6,000 to Rs 7,000. She said that President Asif Ali Zardari had signed into law for the Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Bill 2010 that ensured reinstatement of jobs of many employees. The reinstatement of jobs of over 4,000 Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) employees is the outcome of this law.
She said the labour class was not only the backbone of the country's economy but also of the PPP and that was why Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto always struggled for reinstatements of sacked employees. President Asif Ali Zardari had also signed the Services Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2010, repealing the Removal from Service (Special Power) Ordinance 2000 and the controversial Section 2A of the Services Tribunal Act 1973, which had deprived employees of their right to approach labour courts for remedy, she added.