HYDERABAD, Sept 29: The president of Pakistan Workers Confederation, Sindh, Kaniz Fatima, has said that the Industrial Relations Ordinance-2002 is the blackest anti-worker law which should be withdrawn.

She was speaking at a meeting of the provincial governing body of the confederation held at Labour Hall, Gari Khata, here on Sunday.

She also demanded that the workers should be given the right to form trade unions in all the organizations, the Presidential Ordinance-2000 should be withdrawn and all the workers sacked under the ordinance should be reinstated in service.

Ms Fatima deplored the excesses against local bodies employees and demanded that they should be paid their salaries and other dues on time.

She announced that seminars would be held in Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana and Sukkur to highlight the problems of the local bodies employees and to expose the conspiracies of the government to deprive the municipal employees of their right to form trade unions.

Speaking on the occasion, the senior vice-president of the confederation, Abdul Latif Nizamani, Mohammad Junaid Awan, Fareed Awan, Mohammad Iqbal Kaimkhani and others also condemned the IRO-2002.

The meeting adopted several resolutions demanding the regularization of contractual employees, deletion of section 27-B from the Banking Companies Ordinance and section 2-A from the Civil Servants’ Act.