Daily Times

KARACHI: The Sindh Chief Minister (CM), Syed Murad Ali Shah, has rejected the new Act, forwarded by the Labor and Human Resources Department which aims at ensuring job employment to unskilled workers of the province in the national and multinational firms located in their own areas, Daily Times reliably learnt.

Rejection of the act by the CM will render laborers from their basic fundamental rights, besides Sindh’s local population will also remain ignored in terms of getting jobs created after launch of much awaited China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the sources said.

According to sources, the Sindh’s Labor and Human Resources Department had drafted a new law titled Sindh Local Employment Act, 2016 and presented it to the CM for his nod. However, Murad Ali Shah objected to the new Act and returned it.

“Under the new proposed Sindh Local Employment Act, 2016, the national and multinational organizations working in different parts of the Sindh province shall be bound to give jobs to laborers or workers of areas, where the organizations are located. Moreover, the new Act, shall also restrain the firms from hiring people from different provinces,” sources added.

“The Sindh’s Labor and Human Resources Department recently had visited the Ghotki district of the province, where several national and international firms are doing their businesses.

Interestingly, the Department was shocked to know the statistics of the laborers working there indicating the ratio of local people of the areas, which stood at only 1,000 out of total 20,000″, sources said.

Furthermore, sources said that it was universal law to provide jobs to the local population on the priority basis in all the business enterprises and to spend one per cent of royalty on the welfare of the people. On contrary, people from outside of Sindh are being transported and given jobs in multinational companies.

In district Ghotki alone, around 20 to 25 buses of laborers used to come for work in multinational organizations while the labor force of the area were denied of their fundamental rights.

“These firms only prefer to give jobs to local population in the category of sweeper and watchman only while rest of the staff used to be brought from neighboring province”, sources said.