Labour welfare: EOBI seeks employers’ support
According to Zaidi, there are 5.5 million industrial and private sector workers who are registered with the EOBI.
KARACHI:
Employees Old Age Benefits Institution Director General (Operations) Syed Iqbal Haider Zaidi has said employers should come forward to support EOBI and honour their legal and moral obligations for better welfare of the country’s workforce. He expressed these views during a visit to the SITE Association of Trade and Industry earlier this week. EOBI is playing a key role in providing pension-related benefits to the workers and their dependants in the shape of old-age pension, survivors’ pension, invalidity pension and old-age grants. According to Zaidi, there are 5.5 million industrial and private sector workers who are registered with the Employees Old Age Benefits Scheme and are getting various types of pensions after retirement. “EOBI has made arrangements to provide pensions to registered workers through branches of National Bank of Pakistan, mobile banking and easypaisa,” he said.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 6th, 2013.
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