{"id":58923,"date":"2019-12-22T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T05:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=58923"},"modified":"2019-12-20T17:28:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T12:28:54","slug":"sindh-assembly-passes-the-sindh-women-agriculture-workers-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sindh-assembly-passes-the-sindh-women-agriculture-workers-bill.html","title":{"rendered":"Sindh Assembly passes the Sindh Women Agriculture Workers Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed the Sindh Women Agriculture Workers Bill, 2019, according to a news report. As per the publication, the bill is aimed at granting due rights to women that are involved in agricultural or livestock activities in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The rights afforded to women in the province include matters regarding their pay and minimum wages, the recognition of their labour, and the promotion and implementation of their due rights.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/lahore-to-have-pakistans-first-e-auction-agriculture-market-in-lakhodair.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lahore to have Pakistan\u2019s first E-Auction Agriculture Market in Lakhodair<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of the Standing Committee Labour and Human Resources Shahid Thaheem presented the bill in the provincial assembly, after the original draft had been properly scrutinised and amended accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Chawla presented the bill (clause by clause) to the assembly, with Deputy Speaker Rehana Leghari as the chair. This bill was passed unanimously and consequently, shall be considered as law.<\/p>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-cm-announces-pricing-support-measures-for-farmers.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Punjab CM announces pricing-support measures for farmers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bill aims to foster empowerment by recognising women\u2019s work in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pm-introduces-emergency-agricultural-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agriculture sector<\/a>, including fishing, farming, and related activities. This will help make them part of the decision-making process as well.<\/p>\n<p>Other stipulations of this bill include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Women workers to receive pays equal to their male counterparts<\/li>\n<li>Working day to not exceed eight hours. In addition, work shall not commence until one hour after daybreak or continue beyond one hour before sunset<\/li>\n<li>Women workers will get sick leaves, as well as leaves for antenatal care, post-natal care, and routine check-ups<\/li>\n<li>Women workers will be entitled to a maternity leave of up to 120 days<\/li>\n<li>Mothers to get appropriate, hygienic facilities in order to breastfeed their children with dignity<\/li>\n<li>Women to have full access to government facilities, aid, subsidies, and asset transfers in their own right<\/li>\n<li>Women to be protected from harassment and abuse<\/li>\n<li>Provincial labour and human rights departments to maintain register of women workers in all union councils<\/li>\n<li>Registered women workers to be issued Benazir Women Agriculture Card<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/financial-scheme-for-farmers-smes-planned.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial scheme for farmers, SMEs planned<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the relevant departments (health, local government, population welfare, women development, and labour) have been asked to prepare a two-year plan to ensure the implementation and outreach of these rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed the Sindh Women Agriculture Workers Bill, 2019, according to a news report. As per the publication, the bill is aimed at granting due rights to women that are involved in agricultural or livestock activities in the province. The rights afforded to women in the province include matters regarding their pay and minimum wages, the recognition of their labour, and the promotion and implementation of their due rights. Read: Lahore to have Pakistan\u2019s first E-Auction Agriculture Market in Lakhodair The Chairman of the Standing Committee Labour and Human Resources Shahid Thaheem presented the bill in the provincial assembly, after the original draft had been properly scrutinised and amended accordingly. Then, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mukesh Chawla presented the bill (clause by clause) to the assembly, with Deputy Speaker Rehana Leghari as the chair. This bill was passed unanimously and consequently, shall be considered as law. Read: Punjab CM announces pricing-support measures for farmers The bill aims to foster empowerment by recognising women\u2019s work in the agriculture sector, including fishing, farming, and related activities. This will help make them part of the decision-making process as well. Other stipulations of this bill include: Women workers to receive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":5727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14553,14554,1334],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-58923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-assembly","8":"tag-farmers","9":"tag-sindh"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sindh Assembly passes the Sindh Women Agriculture Workers Bill - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: The Sindh Assembly on Thursday passed the Sindh Women Agriculture Workers Bill, 2019, according to a news report. 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