Razia Sabir mobilizes women workers for implementation of labor laws Razia Sabir, from Faisalabad, a married woman with 5 children, has been a sanitary worker in municipal corporation for 30 years. Ms. Shabana Bhatti, a school teacher and a member of Women Workers’ Alliance (WWA) introduced her to the women workers’ meeting. Razia Sabir shared…
WWA trains women workers Women Workers Alliance (WWA) Sialkot is working on women rights and empowerment. Through the EWAM project, WWA conducted 2 meetings with Social Welfare Departments for formation of anti-harassment committees at workplaces. It was observed by WWA that in most NGOs’ offices there no harassment committee established for complaint mechanism. The notification…
WWA Seeks Support from Labor Department in Restoring Jamila’s Job Jamila Bibi has been working in a food factory for 18 years in Hattar Industrial Estate Haripur with no facilities at her workplace. She lost her husband while also facing termination from the job. Ms. Jamila and her other colleagues were not aware of their…
Provincial coalition advocates for provision of day care facilities and other benefits to women workers at industries. Women are working in registered and unregistered industries that lack facilities for women workers such as day care centres, maternity leaves with benefits, separate washrooms, non-availability of unions and non-compliance with minimum wage standards. These workplace issues are…
Efforts of WWA result in availability of separate washroom for women workers at Women Development Department in Quetta Faiza Malik works as an assistant in the Women Development Department in Quetta. Paradoxically, her office did not have a separate washroom for women employees. She noticed the same lack of facilities in other government offices that…
WWA and PAIMAN fight for women workers’ rights in Charsadda Ajwa Medical Complex (AMC) is a prominent healthcare organization in Charsadda District which has a large number of women workers. Despite their strength, however, these women workers had been deprived of some of their basic workers’ rights, such as separate washroom facilities for females, due…
Afsheen’s efforts result in setting up of anti-harassment committee in her factory Afsheen Malik is a factory worker in Peshawar who works there for more than 8 hours a day. She and all her female colleagues are only paid ten thousand rupees a month which is less than the minimum wage set by the government.…
Women’s Action for Better Workplaces (WAction) conducted Workplace Monitoring Exercise at 105 workplaces in five project districts i.e. Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta. The monitoring of workplaces was conducted on standardized checklists. Keeping in view the difference in provisions of the laws governing the industrial, public and private workplaces, two checklists were developed, one…