LAHORE: The Punjab government has decided to automate the Punjab Labour and Human Resource Department (PL&HRD) to increase registration of labourers in the government’s database for providing social security grants to them in time. My target is to register another two million labourers by 2022 and we will definitely achieve this target,” he added. Niazi said that they have almost seven to eight million registered labourers from formal and informal sectors. Moreover, we have almost four million labourers registered in informal sectors and this number will increase,” he said. When asked about the alliance of labour inspector and industry owner for the registration of labourers, the minister said that the labour inspector is a threat to the industry.

Source: Pakistan Today May 01, 2020 18:55 UTC