Call to implement minimum wage policy.

SWABI -- Pakistan Workers Federation (PWF) leaders here on Sunday asked both the public and private sectors to increase minimum wages of workers to enable them to meet basic needs of their families amid unprecedented food inflation, which has reached close to 50 per cent.

Though the government has fixed minimum wage at Rs25,000, it has failed to implement it effectively.

Shaukat Ali Anjum, the country coordinator of PWF, said due to unbearable increase in prices of essential commodities the workers had been passing through great hardships in the absence of a mechanism to force employers to increase their wages.

'Many industrial units have laid off workers because they are also in hot waters,' he said.

Anwar Kamal Khan, president of Local Government Employees Federation, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said rising price inflation had stressed workers out, and asked the government to effectively implement the minimum wage policy.

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