LAHORE, July 21: The Pakistan Transport Workers Federation has demanded implementation of labour and social security laws on 10,000 workers of transport sector. Voicing the demand at a press conference here on Thursday, Federation President Muhammad Rafiq Qureshi said that most of the 700 transport companies were not paying the prescribed minimum wages to workers and made them work for more than eight hours a day. Social security and old-age benefits were not being provided to them.

He said the transport companies were forcing the workers to work for long hours without payment of adequate wages but denied them basic facilities like rest rooms and toilets at their bus stands. Arrangements for proper training of workers, especially drivers had neither been made by the transport companies nor the government.