Minimum wage policy, living wages, pay gaps, wage-related advocacy
by - Iftikhar Ahmad & Sobia Mir For every hundred rupees a Pakistani man earns, a woman takes home just seventy-five. That stark number, a gender pay gap of 25…
by - Iftikhar Ahmad & Ambreen Riaz in an era dominated by the gig economy, where flexible employment opportunities abound, a recent World Bank report reveals that this sector constitutes…
by - Iftikhar Ahmad & Ambreen Riaz Pakistan is currently the sixth most populous nation globally. It is characterised by a significant youth demographic, with two-thirds of its 241 million…
Pakistan is currently facing the highest inflation rate in nearly 50 years. In recent months, inflation has been as high as 38 percent, the highest in South Asia. Food inflation…
As of April 15, the Covid-19 pandemic has infected almost 2,000,984 people in 185 countries, resulting in more than 128,000 deaths. Pakistan had its first two confirmed cases on February…
Prime Minister Imran Khan has spoken about the ideal of the Islamic welfare state (Riyasat-e-Madina) in nearly every speech he has made in the last 18 months. While addressing the International Rehmatul-lil-Alameen (PBUH) Conference last month, he reaffirmed his government’s resolve to establish an Islamic welfare state on the model of Madina. As suggested by the prime minister in a separate tweet, the state of Madina was founded by the Prophet (PBUH) on modern principles of state-building, including compassion. Council of Islamic Ideology is already working on a comprehensive plan for the creation of Madina-like state.
The question whether the federal government fixes the minimum wage following some objective criteria is controversial. The way minimum wage has been announced for the last couple of years is…
The article was published on 16 June 2014 by the DAWN. Minimum wage can help reduce gender pay gap. With higher education levels, women are reducing this gap, but it is still high,…