The government should formulate new laws to provide social security protection to home-based workers, said participants of an advocacy meeting held on Thursday.
The meeting was held to discuss legislative measures for ensuring economic and social protection for home-based workers.
The participants of the meeting, arranged by the HomeNet Pakistan, included parliamentarians and civil society members.
Ume Laila Azhar, the HomeNet executive director, said that her NGO and several other organisations had been working to formalise the profession of home based workers. “Women workers are an important part of the home-based sector. There are around 12 million women among home-based workers,” she said.
“Our main focus is on introducing a policy for home-based workers. A draft law has been awaiting approval of the Law Department since 2012. Passage of the bill will give home-based workers the right to form collective bargaining unions and to social security,” she said.
Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at Advocacy meeting: ‘Social protection needed for home-based workers’ – The Express Tribune.
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