Punjab raises minimum wage for labourers to Rs32,000. In response to the nation’s spiralling inflation, the caretaker Punjab government has approved raising the minimum wage for workers to Rs32,000.
The government received these recommendations from the Minimum Wages Board in April of this year.
The issue of an increase in labourers’ wages was decided to be discussed on August 26 by acting Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi.
As Punjab raises the minimum wage for labourers to Rs32,000, according to Secretary of Labour Faisal Farid, the department is actively working to improve the welfare of the province’s labourers.
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After the government increased the minimum wage to Rs32,000, he also expressed his congratulations to all workers.
Until a regular government is elected or established, a caretaker government is a temporary ad hoc government that manages some national affairs.
It typically consists of either randomly chosen or approved members of parliament or outgoing members until their dismissal, depending on the specific practice.
In representative democracies, interim governments typically have a narrow scope of authority and are only there to keep things as they are, not to actually govern and make new laws.
A caretaker government, unlike the government it is intended to temporarily replace, lacks a legal mandate (electoral approval) to carry out the aforementioned functions.
When a government in a parliamentary system is overthrown in a vote of no confidence or when the house that the government is accountable to is dissolved, caretaker governments may be set up for the interim period before an election is held and a new government is formed.
