Labour and Manpower

About Department

The Labour & Manpower Department Government of Balochistan  was Established in 1984 with the aim to protect the rights of labours, and impart of vocational & technical training to the youth of Balochistan and to provide welfare to the Secured workers.

Sub-Departments

• Chairman Workers Welfare Board.
• Chairman BESSI.
• Secretary B-TEVTA.
• Member Governing Body WWF.
• Member Board of Trustees EOBI.

Objective

• Promoting Decent Work in the workplaces
• Registration of Factories
• Registration of Trade Unions/ Federation/Confederation
• Registration of Industrial & Commercial Units and Shops & Establishments
• Improving Occupational Safety and Health at the workplaces
• Ensuring Payment of Minimum Wages at workstations
• Providing equal opportunity of wages
• Harmonizing Labour relations between workers & employers
• Providing Scholarship to Workers’ Children (Education Cess)

Service for General Public

• Legislation, policy formulation for Industrial, Mines and Workers in Balochistan.
• Protection of workers’ rights and prevention of discrimination at workplaces.
• Registration of factories, shops & establishment.
• Ensuring Payment of Wages, minimum wages and Workers’ compensation
• Imparting Technical education and vocational training in Skill , trade or occupation as per national vocational qualification Construction of labour Colonies Hospitals and Schools for workmen’s family Death ,marriage grant and educational Scholarship for workmen’s family.
• Construction of labour Colonies Hospitals and Schools for workmen’s family Death ,marriage grant and educational Scholarship for workmen’s family.

• Development Programs (last 5 Years) .

New Schemes

1. Construction of new Technical Training Centre at Killi haji Bakhtiar khan Jattak near Tehsil Dasht District Mastung

New Ongoing Schemes.

1. Skill Development Program through BTEVTA.
2. Rehabilitation / Renovation & Up gradation of the Existing Building for TTC Hub to Center of Excellence.
3. Child Labour Survey in Balochistan (124.232GOB.86.626 UNICEF)
4. Establishment of Balochistan Technical Education & Vocational Training Authority (BTEVTA) Head Quarter
5. Technical Training Center Harnai.
6. Vocational Training Center in killa Saifullah
7. Purchase of Occupational Safety Health mobile units for Labour Welfare, Quetta Hub & Mining Sectors in Dukki&Shahrak(Harnai)
8. Constriction of Embroidery Centre and Technical Training Centre KhartarAlamdar Road Quetta.

Manpower Welfare’s Mission

Re-Orientation and Development of Human Resource Base of Balochistan with a view to contribute its share to the National Development, increased productivity and levels of income through training of Semi-Skilled and Skilled Workers of the Province and making them compatible with the needs of Domestic and International Labour

Directorate Responsibility

• Vocational Training.
• Apprenticeship Training.
• Manpower Statistics.
• Need Assessment Survey.
• Staff Training.
• Trade Testing.
• Monitoring and Evaluation.
• Women Training and Employment

Organizational Structure

Training Centers

TTC Quetta. TTC Khuzdar. TTC Loralai. TTC Sibi. TTC Hub. TTC Turbat. TTC Sui. WTTC Quetta. VTC K. Abdullah. VTC Gwadar. VTC D.M. Jamali.TTC cum Service Centre at Nushki. Hi-Tech TC Quetta. TTC cum Service Centre at Mach, Central Jail.

Manpower Welfare’s Mission

Workers Welfare Board was established under the Workers Welfare Fund Ordinance, 1971 with a view to provide following facilities to the workers of Balochistan:

• Housing
• Education
• Health
• Other Welfare Measures
• Marriage Grant
• Death Grant
• Scholarships

Directorate Responsibility

The Distrbution of The Funds at the Federal Level is as under :

• Punjab: 43%
• Sindh: 42%
• KPK: 08%
• Balochistan: 07%

Organizational Structure

Composition of Workers Welfare Board

• Secretary Labour Chairman
• Three Officers(Public Sector) Members
• Three Employers Members
• Three Workers Representative Members

Direct Welfare Schemes for Workers

Workers, their children and their legal heirs (as the case may be) are being extended financial assistance for Marriage Grant, Death Grant and Scholarships.

• Marriage Grant:Every workers is entitled for the Marriage grant of his each daughters @ 50000/-.
• Death Grant:Legal heirs of deceased workers are entitle of Death Grant @ Rs.2,00,000/-.
• Scholarships:Children of workers who secure 45% marks are entitled for Scholarships at the rates mentioned below

• Established With Financial Assistance OF W.W.F at a cost of Rs.163.00 million.
• Equipment Procured at a Cost: Rs.172.229.
• Kidney Centre handed over to Fatimid Foundation through an MOU signed on 8/11/2006 with a commitment of recurring cost for 2 Years through WWF
• Kidney Centre was inaugurated by the President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 7/12/2006

About Balochistan Employees Social Security Institution (BESSI)

Provides Social Security Benefits with Particular Emphasis upon Medical and Health Facilities to the Secured Workers of notified Establishments.

• Date of Establishment 05-01-1989
• Employer Contribution 7% of the pay of employee (ceiling Rs.5000/-)
• Governing Body Tripartite Body having 12 members.
• Chairman Secretary Labour and Manpower as its Chairman.
• Commissioner Chief Executive of BESSI.

Area of Jurisdiction

• Existing Circles Quetta and Hub
• Proposed new Circles Gwadar and D.M. Jamali
• Efforts are in hand to bring Coal Mines sector under the Social Security network.

Organizational Structure