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The theme of this study focuses on the exclusion of home-based women workers from the existing legal framework of the country. An overview of national labour laws has been presented in the present study. It also highlights the ineffectiveness and complicated nature of labour laws and flaws in its implementation mechanism. The paper also addresses the need for harmonizing the national labour laws with the international legal framework which provides protection to the home-based women workers. The core objective of the paper is to make home-based women workers visible as labour force and also to highlight their exploitative treatment from labour and human rights perspective.

Dr. Syeda Mahnaz Hassan. (2014) 'Situation and Scope' of Existing Labour Laws to Address the Issues of Home-Based Women Workers in Pakistan, Pakistan Journal of Criminology, Volume-06, Issue-2.
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