Sustainable Development Policy Institute conducts seminar on textile & labor policy
23 Jun '06
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Productive labor was the need of the hour and Pakistan's industrial sector can only progress and contribute to economic growth when the concerns and issues of formal and informal sector workers were well protected, observed the participants.
Aliya Khan, Associate Professor at the Quaid-e-Azam University, stated employment and labor issues were very important for the country in an era of export in which the government had committed itself to both export-led as well as job-led growth.
She said the labor protection law had been worked out and would provide due protection to the rights of the workers. She stated, in order to reduce the employee-employer gap, the government is focusing on skill development, improvement of working conditions and provision of occupational health safety.
She emphasized that unless public-private partnership was established and strengthened, no progress on this front was likely to bring any fruit.
The Ministry of Textile Industry will formulate a textile policy for the first time, stated Joint secretary Tipu Mahabat Khan.
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