{"id":63688,"date":"2020-04-06T12:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-04-06T07:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63688"},"modified":"2020-04-06T17:09:38","modified_gmt":"2020-04-06T12:09:38","slug":"call-for-labour-rights-granted-construction-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/call-for-labour-rights-granted-construction-workers.html","title":{"rendered":"PM urged to grant formal labour rights to construction sector workers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: The worker rights and trade union groups on Saturday have lauded the federal government\u2019s incentive package for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/construction-sector-gets-historic-relief-package.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"construction sector  (opens in a new tab)\">construction sector <\/a>and urged for equal facilities to the workers of the same sector with that of the industrial workers (including provision of social security and registration under labour laws), according to news sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-award-diamer-bhasha-dams-construction-contract-few-weeks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Govt to award Diamer Bhasha Dam\u2019s construction contract in few weeks (opens in a new tab)\">Govt to award Diamer Bhasha Dam\u2019s construction contract in few weeks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The representatives of the various labour and trade unions have called for labour laws to be enforced in the construction sector. They stressed that the government should ensure tax exemption and monetary benefits, announced for the construction sector, to make its way to the sub-sector industries as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/islamabad-expressway-update-march-2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Construction work to resume on Islamabad Expressway\u2019s PWD Underpass, Korang Bridge (opens in a new tab)\">Construction work to resume on Islamabad Expressway\u2019s PWD Underpass, Korang Bridge<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They highlighted that no\nhealthcare and personal safety precautions are exercised for the workers which\nlead to fatalities and deserve due consideration. The representatives elaborated\nthat the workers in the construction sector are categorised as informal labour and\ntherefore cannot get certain benefits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: The worker rights and trade union groups on Saturday have lauded the federal government\u2019s incentive package for construction sector and urged for equal facilities to the workers of the same sector with that of the industrial workers (including provision of social security and registration under labour laws), according to news sources. Read: Govt to award Diamer Bhasha Dam\u2019s construction contract in few weeks The representatives of the various labour and trade unions have called for labour laws to be enforced in the construction sector. They stressed that the government should ensure tax exemption and monetary benefits, announced for the construction sector, to make its way to the sub-sector industries as well. Read: Construction work to resume on Islamabad Expressway\u2019s PWD Underpass, Korang Bridge They highlighted that no healthcare and personal safety precautions are exercised for the workers which lead to fatalities and deserve due consideration. The representatives elaborated that the workers in the construction sector are categorised as informal labour and therefore cannot get certain benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":63690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15013],"tags":[10295,25317],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-construction","8":"tag-construction-sector-witnesses-surge-under-fdi","9":"tag-pm-urged-to-grant-formal-labour-rights-to-construction-sector-workers","10":"cat-15013-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Call for labour rights to be granted to construction workers - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The representatives of the various labour and trade unions have called for labour laws to be enforced in the construction sector.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/call-for-labour-rights-granted-construction-workers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Call for labour rights to be granted to construction workers - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The representatives of the various labour and trade unions have called for labour laws to be enforced in the construction sector.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/call-for-labour-rights-granted-construction-workers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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