KARACHI, March 21: The Sindh labour department has decided to launch an operation against the owners of industrial establishments violating labour laws and the big defaulters of the Sindh Employees Social Security Institution.

The department has chalked out a strategy under which names of defaulters and those involved in violation of labour laws will be made public. The decision to launch the operation was taken at a meeting presided over by Sindh Minister of Labour, Transport & Industries Adil Siddiqui.

The minister instructed officials to take action against the violators. He said it had come to his notice that big industrial establishments were violating labour laws.

Mr Siddiqui said he would pay surprise visits to industrial concerns and take stock of the situation with regard to observance of labour laws. He was surprised to know that there existed no tradition of taking action against such concerns. He also constituted a committee to visit industrial concerns and see the implementation of labour laws and in case of violation report to the government. He instructed officials to set up a helpline for industrial workers so that they could lodge their complaints. — PPI