RAWALPINDI: During a three-day drive to ensure implementation of labour laws, the labour department booked 50 owners of hotels and restaurants.

The department has launched the campaign to ensure minimum wages are paid to labourers and in this connection it initiated legal action against 50 hotels and restaurants owners and submitted 10 cases in courts.

Giving details, Director Labour Rawalpindi Division, Fazal Hussain told newsmen that teams of labour officers had been constituted to examine the implementation of labour laws especially relating to provision of minimum wages to the workers.

He said hotels and restaurant owners were bound to follow the rules and regulations and laws and they could be penalized for violating them. He asked owners to take care of their employees and did not violate the rules relating to wages.

Published in Dawn, February 9th, 2020