Picking up the pieces: ILO offers to help families train and get jobs

The ILO will provide several types of assistance in the immediate to medium terms.


News Desk September 13, 2012



Islamabad. The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has offered to help assess the loss of income for the families of the victims and ways to help them get back on their feet again, it said in a press release on Thursday.


The ILO will provide several types of assistance in the immediate to medium terms. It will extend skill-training scholarships to 500 members of the families and link them with decent jobs. It can extend technical assistance on the rapid training of labour inspectors in Sindh on promoting fire safety at the workplace.

In the medium term it will help build institutional capacity of the Sindh labour department to improve the efficiency of its labour inspections.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 14th, 2012.

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