Press releases
This is a list of official ILO press releases issued by the ILO Office in Pakistan. Some are available in Urdu and this is indicated on the top of each release. The most recent release is at the top.
2019
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Enhancing occupational safety and health at enterprise level
12 March 2019
A series of training on Occupational Safety and Health for enterprises in the textile and leather sectors were conducted in Lahore, Punjab
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Promoting fundamental principles and rights at work among cotton growing communities in Pakistan
04 March 2019
Two awareness raising seminars were organized for the cotton growing communities of Multan district in cooperation with FAO.
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Unified national qualification frameworks: A way forward for greater mobility of Pakistani migrant workers
04 February 2019
The ILO Country Office for Pakistan organized stakeholders’ workshop to present the state of national qualification framework for higher education and vocational skills in Pakistan, highlighting the strengths; weakness; implementation challenges and the way forward to enhance the mobility of Pakistani migrants.
2018
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Garment sector stakeholders’ firm on ensuring compliance with labour standards
19 December 2018
GSSF members concurred that policy and advocacy on formulating a wage policy framework is a key step towards minimum wage reforms.
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How should minimum wages be determined?
10 December 2018
A technical session on Minimum Wage determination was organised as part of a knowledge sharing initiative by the BMZ funded project of the ILO ‘Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains: A Programme of Action for Asia and the Garment Sector’ (LSGSC).
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Awareness raising campaign on OSH in the construction sector of Karachi
06 December 2018
The ILO under its Dutch funded project on “Strengthening Labour Inspection System in Pakistan (SLISP)” supported the Labour and Human Resources Department of Sindh in implementing an awareness raising campaign on Occupational Safety and Health in the construction sector of Karachi.
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Global Wage Report 2018/19: What lies behind Gender Pay Gap
28 November 2018
The ILO country office for Pakistan organised a technical session on the Global Wage Report 2018/19 as part of its centenary activities.
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Consultative meeting on Trade related Investment Policy Framework (TRIPF)
12 November 2018
The EU funded project ‘Sustaining strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting in relevant EU trading partners’ supported Employers’ Federation of Pakistan (EFP) to let employers brainstorm the labour market implications of the TRIPF and inform it with their inputs.
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The future of work and the significance of effective collective bargaining and negotiations
05 October 2018
The Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (LSGSC) project, funded by German Ministry for Development Cooperation (BMZ) & Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany, implemented by the International Labour Organization (ILO) completed a four-day training on collective bargaining and negotiations skills during 24-27 September 2018 in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Stakeholders committed to promote fundamental principles and rights at work in Pakistan’s cotton, textile and garment value chains
04 October 2018
The ILO office in Pakistan carved out the roadmap for the elimination of child and forced labour and towards promoting fundamental principles and rights at work (FPRW) in the cotton, textile and garment value chains in Pakistan. These interventions will be spearheaded by two new projects of the ILO funded by the EU & INDITEX.
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Enhancing occupational safety and health (OSH) at enterprise level
08 September 2018
The International Labour Organization under its project “International Labour and Environmental Standards Application in Pakistan’s SMEs (ILES)” organized a series of the trainings on occupational safety and health for enterprises in the textile and leather sectors in Sindh, Karachi.
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Collective bargaining and effective negotiation skills for industrial harmony
19 August 2018
The ILO Pakistan Office, under its flagship project, Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains (LSGSC), organized a four day training workshop on ‘Collective Bargaining and Negotiations Skills’ in Karachi from 15-18 August, 2018.
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The Government of Gilgit-Baltistan embarks on the development of a Youth Employment Strategy
09 August 2018
The ILO in collaboration with the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan and Prime Ministers’ Youth Programme (PMYP) held consultative workshops on Youth Employment Framework in Gilgit and Skardu as part of a series of consultations across the country aimed at devising consensus based strategies for youth employment and empowerment.
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Fourteenth cohort of national labour inspectors’ training program completed
09 August 2018
The fourteenth cohort and fifth batch of inspecting staff of the Department of Labour Punjab were trained under the ILO’s Dutch funded project on Strengthening Labour Inspection Systems in Pakistan (SLISP). This brings the number of trained inspecting staff to 403 inspecting staff [ i.e. 385 men and 18 women] from Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, AJK, ICT, GB and Punjab.
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Government empowers a Steering Committee (SC) to steer the implementation of the Pakistan’s DWCPIII
01 August 2018
The Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development convened the first meeting of the Steering Committee on Pakistan’s third Decent Work Country Programme). The meeting took stock of the progress of the DWCP-III and discussed strategies and the way forward to enhance its implementation and monitoring.
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South-South and Triangular Cooperation for strengthening workplace injury compensation system in Pakistan
16 July 2018
ILO Country Office in Islamabad organised a one-day Consultation gathering National Social Security Institutions, relevant Departments and Organisations, and four provincial ESSI representatives to discuss the challenges and develop the province-specific strategy to reform Pakistan Social Security System.
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Mega event to mark the World Day against Child Labour-2018
09 July 2018
The EU funded project ‘Sustaining strengthened national capacities to improve ILS compliance and reporting in relevant EU trading partners’ supported Employers’ Federation of Pakistan (EFP) and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Department of Labour in arranging a mega event in Peshawar on July 10, 2018 to mark the World Day against Child Labour (WDACL). The event was held under the theme ‘Generation Safe & Healthy’
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Businesses re-affirm their commitment to promote decent work in supply chains
28 June 2018
On 28th June, the 2nd Business Round Table on Promoting Decent Work and Fundamental Rights in Value Chains was convened under the aegis of Child Labour Platform . Stakeholders affirmed their commitment to promote decent work in supply chains by identifying specific measures to be taken. The event was organized under the ILO-Stora Enso Partnership that aims to eliminate child labour and promote decent work in supply chains, with a focus on Pakistan
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Sindh labour department completes the consultation process of drafting rules of business for implementation of labour laws
27 June 2018
The Government of Sindh with the technical support of ILO’s German funded project on Labour Standards in Global Supply Chains and the EU funded International Labour and Environmental Standards in Pakistan’s SME’s organised its’ second tripartite plus stakeholders consultation from 26-27 June 2018. The objective of the consultation was to gather inputs on its draft Rules of Business for the recently promulgated labour laws.
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Chief inspectors of mines express determination to safeguard the lives of miners
27 June 2018
A national consultative meeting of the Chief Inspectors of Mines (CIMs) was convened in Quetta to foster experience sharing and discuss capacity building needs for the improvement of working and safety conditions in the mining sector of Pakistan.