Daily Times

KARACHI: Central leaders of trade unions, federations and the labor supporting organizations demanded the Sindh government on Tuesday to constitute a high-powered judicial commission to probe into corruption, mismanagement and malpractices in the provincial labor department and its affiliated bodies and also take action against the responsible concerned officers.

Addressing a joint press conference at Karachi Press Club, the labor leaders decried that the labor institutions like Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution (SESSI) and Sindh Workers Welfare Board (SWWB) are infected with wide-spread corruption and a group of bureaucrats have created a cartel to swindle the funds available for the welfare of workers. Whenever the government starts taking action against them, they start creating hurdles.

“We support the measures taken by Advisor to Sindh Chief Minister for Labor Senator Saeed Ghani for improvement of the functioning of provincial labor organizations and demand the government to immediately form a judicial commission to fix responsibilities so that severe action can be taken against the corrupt officers,” said Karamat Ali, Secretary of NLC.

Since Senator Saeed Ghani has been appointed as Labor Advisor, there were visible signs of improvement in the performance of SESSI-run hospitals and other institutions, but the powerful group of bureaucrats in the department has tried hard to stop Saeed Ghani from his actions for betterment.

The Sindh Labor department has got vacated 1,000 flats in Labour Square in Gulshan-e-Maymar and there was visible savings in medical expenses in the SESSI health facilities at SITE and Landhi. That has become possible due to personal interest taken by Senator Saeed Ghani in controlling corruption in Labor department.