K-P labourers will get promised benefits soon

PESHAWAR: The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Labour and Culture Shaukat Yousafzai Thursday said that that registration of all the labours working with any organisation would be completed within next two weeks and they would be entitled to all benefits.

Speaking to media in the provincial capital, Yousafzai said that due to non-registration in the past, several labours were deprived of their basic rights, however, he added they will now receive all benefits.

The minister said the labour department has offered services of all of its hospitals for coronavirus patients to provincial health department. The provincial government has taken strong measures against coronavirus epidemic have been taken.

Shaukat said that K-P government under the leadership of Chief Minister Mahmood Khan took various preemptive measures against coronavirus outbreak.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 20^th, 2020.