Legal ReportComparison of Selected Labor Laws in Pakistan and India SummaryLabor Laws in Pakistan 1Collective Bargaining and Industrial Dispute Resolution 2Contractual Employment 2Labor Laws Related to Temporary Contracts determined 2 Termination of employment relationship 3 Labor legislation related to consultations and notifications before collective dismissal 3 Termination compensation (in months) 3 Working time conditions/leave 4 Labor law provisions relating to working time conditions 4 Sources: 5 Labor Laws in Pakistan Since the creation of Pakistan, successive governments have announced five labor policies in the years 1955, 1959, 1969, 1972 and 2002. All these policies have essentially set the parameters for the growth of trade unionism; the protection of workers' rights; the resolution of industrial disputes, etc. After 2002, no labor policy was introduced, although numerous developments occurred. Pakistan has more than 70 labor related laws, we will discuss only a few of them in this report and compare them with similar ones in India. In Pakistan, workers are defined into four categories. "Permanent workers" means workers who carry out work lasting more than nine months and who have satisfactorily passed a probationary period, "fixed-term workers" means those who have been hired for a job essentially temporary in nature and capable of being terminated within a period not exceeding nine months. There is also the concept known as “badli”, which describes a worker appointed in place of a temporarily absent permanent or probationary worker. Finally, "probationary" means workers hired provisionally to fill a permanent vacancy and who do not have... half of the documentation... Istanbul and India on the basis of working hours, the minimum daily rest required , maximum working days per week, maximum limit of overtime hours in normal circumstances and maximum limit in exceptional cases. Labor law provisions relating to working time conditions Working hours in the manufacturing sector Minimum daily rest required by law (hours) Maximum working days per week Maximum of Overtime limit in normal circumstances Maximum time limit in exceptional circumstances Pakistan 9 hours per day (7 hours per day for a young person) Not specified 6 Not exceeding 624 hours per year Not specified India 9 hours per day, 48 hours per week 30 minutes of rest for every 5 hours of work 6 200 hours per day year Not specified Sources: http://www.wageindicator.org/documents/Labour_and_Employment_Law-A_Profile_on_Pakistan.pdf http://www.eximbankindia.in/sites/default/files/Full%20OP/op160 .pdf