A Sub-Committee of Functional Committee on Devolution has invited heads of all worker unions from the provinces to discuss the issues relating to Workers Welfare Fund (WWF). The Sub-Committee met with Senator Muhammad Usman Khan Kakar in the chair at Pakistan Institute for Parliamentary Services (PIPS) here on Wednesday, where it discussed non-devolution of the WWF as well as non-devolution of the Employees Old-Age Benefit Institution (EOBI).
Pakistan Peoples' Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) leader Senator Taj Haider said the Sindh government would introduce electronic and computerised system for paying pension and others funds to the workers. He said if any worker was working in Karachi and his family was living in Peshawar then he could open account in Peshawar as well. The Sindh government was introducing that system to facilitate the workers, he added. He said that National Database & Registration Authority (NADRA) would play its role to facilitate the workers in providing funds and pension.
The members of Sub-Committee said that Punjab should not have approached the Supreme Court to resolve the matter regarding devolution of the WWF, observing the provinces and the governments should sit together to resolve this issue. They said the Prime Minister should take notice of that issue and give directions to the provinces to sit together and resolve the issue amicably.
After meeting, Taj Haider while talking to Business Recorder said his party had always fought for the rights of workers. The government of Sindh would play its pivotal role, not only by resolving issues of workers but also by providing them facilities for payment of pension and other funds, he added. He said the Ministry of Labour and Manpower had been devolved to the provinces under the 18th Constitutional Amendment but the federal government was not transferring assets amounting to Rs 350 billion to the provinces.
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