FAISALABAD, July 14: Minimum Wages Board Punjab (MWBP) Chairman Labibur Rehman has claimed that the government is contemplating a number of amendments to the existing Wages Act 1936 to meet the modern era requirements and provide better facilities to working class. Speaking to members of the Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI), the board chief said the government was trying to condense 20 laws of the existing act to six for better enforcement.

He said the government had decided to raise wages of skilled and semi-skilled people every year in consonance with the price hike.

“Owing to some technical problems of the industrial groups in operation of their accounts, we are holding meetings with their managements to get implemented the government decision about the increase in wages,” he said.

He said the industrial communities were allowed to set the time framework for the implementation of this increase in minimum wages law announced by the government in the annual budget 2005-06.

He said maximum efforts were also being made to implement labour laws in their true spirit in all industrial units of the country.