News

Date:
8 February 2012
Country:
Pakistan
Title:
Monitoring Home-Based Workers' Rights: Setting up of Independent Commission Stressed
Publication:
Business Recorder
Description:

Participants of the provincial workshop titled " Joining hands with the stakeholder" have demanded through a consensus resolution that "Pakistan should endorse ILO Convention C177, an independent Commission should be set up to monitor the state of affairs of rights of home-based workers (HBWs), amendments be made in the Labour laws and the number of workers should be reduced from 50 to seven in a factory entitled of forming the "workers union", status of "worker" should be given to the HBWs and Nadra should be advised to include specific columns in the forms to record the economic activities of the women at homes".