Sindh Employees’ Social Security Institution (SESSI) has so far recruited 126 people whose parents were earlier employed by the SESSI employees and who died during the service.
This was disclosed by Sindh Information and Labour Minister Saeed Ghani, who is also the Chairman of the SESSI’s governing body, as he attended a ceremony at the SESSI’s head office here on Friday. The ceremony was organized to distribute appointment letters to 53 out of these 126 persons offered employment by the SESSI while honoring the services of their deceased parents.
The Sindh Information and Labour Minister said that these jobs were being given in accordance with the manifesto of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party. He said the Sindh government had launched the Benazir Mazdoor Card (BMC) Scheme in order to enroll the laborers in the province who were not earlier registered with the SESSI so as to bring them under the social security cover.
He said the BMC would ensure quality health and education services to the children of the beneficiary labourers. He also expressed gratitude to the SESSI wing of the Peoples’ Labour Bureau for making efforts so that the children of the deceased employees of the Social Security Institution could get jobs.
Ghani said that his own basic identity was that of a labour unionist as he being the Labour Minister of the province had never faced any difficulty to understand the problems of the labourers as he himself had been a big advocate of the labour causes in the country.
He said it was unfortunate that a general impression had been prevailing in the country that people associated with the labour unions didn’t perform their duties as it is now high time that this perception should be nullified.
He hoped that the SESSI employees, especially the new entrants in the organizations, would work hard to get this impression nullified.
