Anomalies and discrepancies in the newly promulgated labour laws in Sindh will be removed and a business friendly environment will be provided; Advisor to CM for Law Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui
Karachi : Murtaza Wahab Siddiqi, Advisor to the Chief Minister Sindh for Law, assured the employers that the anomalies and discrepancies in the newly promulgated labour laws in Sindh will be removed and a business friendly environment will be provided to the private sector to play their vital role in the economic and social development of the Province of Sindh.
Barrister Murtaza Wahab Siddiqi, Advisor to the Chief Minister Sindh for Law, Enquiries and Anti corruption, Establishment, Government of Sindh was addressing the international Human resource Conference 2016 organised by Employers Federation of Pakistan in collaboration with the International Labour Organization at a local hotel today as the Chief guest.
Mr, Abdul Raheem Soomro, Secretary Commerce & Industries, as the Guest of Honour at the Conference emphasised upon the role to be played by the HR professionals in optimising the use of Human capital at the enterprise level which she said would play a vital role in building transformational change in the ability of our business enterprises to combat the challenges of global and international market.
Ms. Ingrid Christensen, Country Director. ILO Islamabad, in her remarks on the occasion emphasised on the role of HR professionals in developing new tools and practices needed to meet the emerging challenges in the future of work. The decent work Agenda which is at the centre of United Nations Sustainable Development goals should in fact attract most attention of the HR professionals as they provide leadership to the business enterprises in meeting their objectives of Sustainable development, full engagement of women in economic activities as well as bringing the informal economy in the mainstream.
Earlier Mr. Khawaja Muhammad Nauman emphasised upon the important role the HR professionals were expected to play in preparing the tomorrow’s human assets today, combating challenges in the future of work and achieving productivity through HR leadership. He said that HR professionals, by use of their strategic roles as business partners could change the dynamics of enterprise growth in the province and demanded that the business friendly environment should be provided by the Government to capitalise upon the role of private sector in industrial growth which will ultimately result in achieving the decent Work Agenda for the mutual benefit of business enterprises and employee welfare. He also presented a Memorandum of Solutions signed by EFP and ten industrial associations representing the industry of Sindh which recommended to the Government 7 point Agenda to address the issues of labour Laws, Labour Inspection and productivity challenges.
Later in the Conference, the results of the contest, companies with best HR practices were recognised for the EFP Awards of excellence in best HR practices. The Award wining companies were total PARCO, DP WORLD, BAYER Pakistan receiving the first Prize while Archroma and Lotte chemical Pakistan limited receiving the second prize in the multinational sector companies category.
Meezan Bank limited and PAK Arab refinery received the first prize while Mari petroleum and allied Bank limited received the second prize in the category of Large National Companies. The Epla Laboratories received the wining prize in the SME category.
Mr. Abdul Rasheed Solangi, Secretary Labour, Government of Sindh, Mr. Alamghir shah, Government of KPK, Mr. Paul Witte, Director DECP, Mr. Kanishka Weera Singhe, Director General of Employer’s Federation of Ceylon, Mr. Zahoor Awan, secretary, PWF also spoke on the occasion. A number of speakers and panelists shared their knowledge and experience on the latest tools and techniques to equip the HR professionals in playing their roles as strategic business partner during the six business sessions of the Conference.
