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Article: Govt urged to include home-based workers in existing labour laws.
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- PPI - Pakistan Press International
- Article date:
- November 27, 2005
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ISLAMABAD, November 27 (PPI): The civil society organizations have urged upon the government to include the home-based workers in all other existing labour laws.Talking to PPI here Sunday, representatives of civil society organizations and lawyers said the house workers particularly the housemaids in Pakistan are very much vulnerable to financial, physical, moral and sexual abuse as there is not a single law or rule on the statute that could protect them from employers exploitation and excesses.
They said the culture of home-based workers is a centuries old practice and almost every well-to-do family loves to engage housemaids for their routine house jobs ...