Help desks being set up at chambers to resolve labor, social security issues.

FAISALABAD -- Punjab Secretary for Labor and Human Resources Dr. Ahmad Javed Qazi has said that 'Help Desks' are being established in different chambers of commerce and industry across the province to resolve the problems relating to labour and social security.

Inaugurating two separate desks at the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI), he said that he had been given responsibility to maintain strategic balance between rights and responsibilities of both employees and employers.

He explained the responsibilities assigned to its different subordinate departments and said that the Punjab Employees Social Security Institution (PESSI) was responsible to ensure best possible medical facilities to the secured workers and their families.

'Similarly Workers Welfare Fund (WWF) has been mandated to provide free education along with provision of books, uniform and transport facility to the children of the industrial workers," he said and added that it is also providing residences to the employees. He said that under the Naya Pakistan Housing Programme, registered workers would also get residences at subsidised rates. He said that after the approval of the federal government, the Punjab government had also prepared a draft of its programme, which was expected to be approved by its governing body very soon.

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