{"id":89646,"date":"2019-05-31T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T22:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=89646"},"modified":"2019-05-31T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T22:42:56","slug":"dress-code-for-govt-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/05\/31\/dress-code-for-govt-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Dress code for Govt. employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe <\/strong><\/em><em>Courtesy The Daily Mirror<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The Ministry of Public Administration has made it compulsory for all female employees who work in government institutions, to wear a sari or an osari.&nbsp; Male employees should wear a shirt and trousers, or national dress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said in its circular to ministry secretaries, provincial chief secretaries and department heads, to make sure that the provisions of circular 2121\/1 issued on April 29, 2019 and 2123\/4 issued on May 13, 2019 should be strictly adhered to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The circular has also given guidelines for the dress code for officials and clients &#8211; adding that the clients who enter government offices for services should wear a dress which allows for clear recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It said the employees who were provided with uniforms should wear the uniforms provided to them while on duty.\u00a0\u00a0<em><strong>(<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiran Priyankara Jayasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Ministry of Public Administration has made it compulsory for all female employees who work in government institutions, to wear a sari or an osari.&nbsp; Male employees should wear a shirt and trousers, or national dress. It said in its circular to ministry secretaries, provincial chief secretaries and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89646","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=89646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}