Despite making up almost half of Pakistan’s population, women remain under-represented in the labour force. According to the recent Labour Force Survey 2020-21, women constitute only 21.3 percent of the total workforce. Women workers continue to face a multitude of issues at the workplaces including irregular employment, low and unequal wages, vulnerable working conditions, job…
Adherence to and improvements in maternity benefits laws is important for effective economic participation of women workers.
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…