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Labour
Recommendations
1. Meaningful land reforms should be carried out to ensure respect for
the rights of the tillers of the land.
2. The minimum wage should reflect the average monthly cost of decent
living and ensure that inflation is accounted for. It should be uniform throughout
the country.
3. The ban on factory inspection should be lifted in areas where it remains
in place. The employers should be penalized severely if they fail to provide a
safe and healthy working environment to the employees.
4. All workers, including home-based and agricultural workers, should
be given the right to form unions and facilitated in realizing their right of
assembly.
5. The penalty for keeping labourers in bondage under the Bonded Labour
System (Abolition) Act 1992 should be increased and adjusted with current
inflation rates in order to ensure deterrence.
6. Sincere efforts should be made to implement the 36 ILO conventions
ratified by the government as well as workers rights guaranteed in human
rights treaties to which Pakistan is a party.