WWA trains women workers

WWA trains women workers Women Workers Alliance (WWA) Sialkot is working on women rights and empowerment. Through the EWAM project, WWA conducted 2 meetings with Social Welfare Departments for formation of anti-harassment committees at workplaces. It was observed by WWA that in most NGOs’ offices there no harassment committee established for complaint mechanism. The notification…

Provincial coalition advocates for provision of day care facilities and other benefits to women workers at industries.

Provincial coalition advocates for provision of day care facilities and other benefits to women workers at industries.  Women are working in registered and unregistered industries that lack facilities for women workers such as day care centres, maternity leaves with benefits, separate washrooms, non-availability of unions and non-compliance with minimum wage standards. These workplace issues are…

Efforts of WWA result in availability of separate washroom for women workers at Women Development Department in Quetta

Efforts of WWA result in availability of separate washroom for women workers at Women Development Department in Quetta Faiza Malik works as an assistant in the Women Development Department in Quetta. Paradoxically, her office did not have a separate washroom for women employees. She noticed the same lack of facilities in other government offices that…

Workplace Monitoring Report 2018

Women’s Action for Better Workplaces (WAction) conducted Workplace Monitoring Exercise at 105 workplaces in five project districts i.e. Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta. The monitoring of workplaces was conducted on standardized checklists. Keeping in view the difference in provisions of the laws governing the industrial, public and private workplaces, two checklists were developed, one…