{"id":55159,"date":"2016-05-30T15:17:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T22:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=55159"},"modified":"2016-05-30T15:17:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T22:17:59","slug":"sri-lanka-signs-agreements-with-malaysia-and-israel-for-over-5000-job-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/05\/30\/sri-lanka-signs-agreements-with-malaysia-and-israel-for-over-5000-job-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka signs agreements with Malaysia and Israel for over 5000 job opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>This seems ridiculous.<\/p>\n<p>Whole business community is complaining about lack of labour force for construction ,shipbuilding etc and the Lady Minister goes and signs \u00a0somewhat short sighted agreement with Malasia and Israel\u00a0 to send our blood\u201d of the development to work abroad !<\/p>\n<p>Government top brass should review the labour requirements in Sri Lank and try to retain them to work in our projects.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever foreign currency we earn from these workers will be drained back to India or Bangladesh if and when we import Labour\u201d for our projects<\/p>\n<p>Sending people away to other countries is not in line \u00a0with the policy statement of the Prime minister\u2019s pledge to provide jobs for one million people ??<\/p>\n<p>We should look at the body drain\u201d to Middle East, which create an immense social issue within our families.<\/p>\n<p>It should be stopped and we should create jobs here for our women folks even in domestic helper \u2013market \u00a0by setting a 30,000 Rs minimum wage ( equivalent to $200 ) per month .<\/p>\n<p>Women who go to Middles East do not even get that amount in some countries, but when they come with a child some times, whole family disintegrates.<\/p>\n<p>Our people spend 20-30 million rupees to buy a Land Cruiser, but reluctant to pay the most important person in the house hold ( other than your own wife !\u201d) \u00a0decent salary \u2018<\/p>\n<p>By setting a minimum salary of 2500-3000 Rs we should be able retain them in Sri Lanka<\/p>\n<p>( A \u00a0little stupid proposal of course \u2013to allow our people to maintain a $ account and they place that $200 to the dollar account so that the women gets a comfortable feeling !)<\/p>\n<p>200 Garment factory project by President had helped the country to keep them in Sri Lanka and generate the foreign income by exporting the garments to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>Our labour force contributes to develop other countries and we lament about our growth<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera\u00a0 This seems ridiculous. Whole business community is complaining about lack of labour force for construction ,shipbuilding etc and the Lady Minister goes and signs \u00a0somewhat short sighted agreement with Malasia and Israel\u00a0 to send our blood\u201d of the development to work abroad ! Government top brass should review the labour requirements in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}