Country’s future depends on job creation: SAPM

PM aide calls for providing workers access to essential benefits

ISLAMABAD:

Special Assistant to Prime Minister (SAPM) Jawad Sohrab Malik, while highlighting the significance of Pakistan’s 10th largest labour force in the world, has asserted that the country’s economic future is contingent upon its employment rate.

On the International Labour Day on Monday, the PM aide paid tribute to the determination and hard work of countless workers, acknowledging their critical contribution to Pakistan’s economic progress.

Malik emphasised the need for ensuring social and economic fairness for workers and providing transparent access to essential benefits such as healthcare, education and other social benefits.

The SAPM believed that labour was an essential means of human dignity and creative excellence, and thus called for making available dignified and decent work opportunities to the workers.

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“Providing such opportunities is the best way to acknowledge the substantial contribution that workers make towards uplifting the country’s economy.”

The special assistant underscored the need to reform employment and labour policies, believing skills development of the labour force could play a pivotal role in alleviating poverty, if carefully planned and implemented in the context of available and emerging employment and income-generation avenues.

“A comprehensive approach to skills development and employment policies is necessary to provide sustainable solutions that benefit both workers and the wider economy,” he suggested.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 2^nd, 2023.

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