WEBCOP Secretariate
at Skill Develpment Council Karachi,
B-10, Block-5, Behind Sir Syed University, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi.
Ph: (92-21)4812640, 4812643 Fax : 4982678
E-mail
info@webcop.org.pk
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING
The representatives of Employers & Workers, appreciating the challenges posed by Globalization and the new world order to the National Economy and feeling the need to meet the challenges through concerted efforts for accelerating industrial development and socio-economic growth, having met at Karachi on 12th day of July 2000, resolve to form and establish Workers Employers Bilateral Council of Pakistan (WEBCOP), to promote the following aims and objects:
a)
Generating employment opportunities and promoting employability of abundantly available workforce in the market:;
b)
Removing impediments in the way of speedy industrialization and sound industrial relations at the enterprise as well as at the national level;
c)
Achieving a balance between the rights and obligations of industrial partners;
d)
Developing a basis for wage increase in the organized sector without interference in the process of collective bargaining;
e)
Promoting productivity and quality improvement efforts at the enterprise and national level in order to fully meet the challenges of globalization and other environmental changes;
f)
Improving quality of life for the working class by establishing a linkage between the pace of economic development and quantum of social benefits.
g)
Developing at the enterprise level effective participative culture through bilateral consultation and dialogue on matters relating to industrial relations, productivity, safety, health, investment, employment and socio economic benefits.
h).
Promoting agro based industry with the purpose to obtain prosperity for the rural workers and improve quality of their life.
In order to achieve the aforesaid objective, it is resolved to closely work with each other in activating and extending full support to the tripartite bodies for performing their task efficiently in the best national interest:, particularly in:
- Tripartite Labour Standing Committee at the Federal Level
- Tripartite Labour Advisory Boards at Provincial Level.
- National Minimum Wage Council
- National Productivity Council
- National Health and Safety Council
These Councils should be constituted in a manner that the number of the representatives of workers, employers and the Government should be equal and that the Councils should be in a position to work independently.
hese tripartite bodies should meet regularly and must ensure that their decisions are implemented in the given time frame.
To provide a bi-partite institutional framework for voluntary mediation, conciliation and arbitration of industrial dispute, without polarizing and politicizing the issue, in a practical and conducive environment. Necessary guidance and assistance will also be extended jointly in the matters relating to industrial relations and labour laws.
To make efforts for wage productivity linkages with due regard to the cost of living index to keep an enterprise live and thriving.
To augment training and educational and research facilities with a view to upgrade the skill and knowledge of the workers and Managers. Management Development Programmes and Workers Education Activities shall be designed, organized and conducted by their own bodies.
To devise a code of conduct, keeping in view the existing National and International norms and obligations, the employers and workers will:
- jointly work for improving efficiency and productivity of the enterprise and develop a system benefiting both the partners of the productivity gains.
- respect the right of association and collective bargaining with due appreciation of their rights and obligations
- demonstrate mutual respect to obligations and rights of each other.
To achieve the minimum mutually acceptable reforms in the existing labour laws and lending full support and assistance to their simplification, rationalization and codification.
Consistent with the above declared aims and objects of this Council, we hereby declare that we shall henceforth patronize, promote and project Pakistani products and we enjoin upon all to BUYPAKISTANI PRODUCTS, in order to get out from foreign indebtedness and unfair conditionalities to achieve national dignity.
