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" DILEMMA OF LABOUR LAWS IN SINDH DILEMMA OF LABOUR LAWS IN SINDH By Asif Amin, Advocate, Karachi The Eighteenth (18th) Constitutional Amendment was passed in April 2010 with the aim of providing more autonomy to the Provincial Governments of Pakistan. The Amendment received the backing and support of a large number of political parties as it sought to meet some of the long standing demands of the Provinces for making them independent in terms of getting more control over provincial resources, finances and revenues. As a consequence, seventeen (17) ministries (Education, Social Welfare and Special Education, Tourism, Special Initiatives, Population Planning, Local Government and Rural Development, Zakat and Ushr, Youth Affairs, Livestock and Dairy Development, Culture, Food and Agriculture, Sports, Environment and Health, Women Development, Minorities Affairs, Labour and Manpower) were abolished at the federal level in the year 2011 and their entire responsibilities were transferred to the provinces. The prolonged political and provincial grievances and the Federal Government's inadequate attention towards the transferred/devolved sectors were the root cause for this historical constitutional Amendment, which sought to bring good governance and development in these sectors. In most developed countries, however, key sectors such as Labour, Health and Education are under the domain of the Federal Government but in Pakistan these subjects were transferred to the provincial domain by way of the Eighteenth (18th) Constitutional Amendment without doing the appropriate homework. Due to such reason the Provinces are still facing legal complications and complexities in these transferred sectors. The post Eighteenth (18th) Constitutional Amendment era has created a situation…