{"id":99564,"date":"2020-03-03T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=99564"},"modified":"2020-03-03T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T01:27:10","slug":"issues-that-affect-employees-in-the-private-and-semi-government-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/03\/03\/issues-that-affect-employees-in-the-private-and-semi-government-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Issues that affect employees in the private and semi-government sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Ceylon Mercantile and General Workers Union,<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><strong>His Excellency the President <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotabaya Rajapaksha<br>President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka<br>Presidential Secretariat<br>Colombo 01.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Your excellency,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We the undersigned trade unions of the Sri Lanka Council of the IndustriAll Global Union representing the private sector and <a>semi Government <\/a>sector employees, wish to draw your immediate attention to the following. These are issues that affect employees in the private and semi-government sectors in general and our members in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>As\npromised during the last presidential election in November 2019, the national\nminimum wage approved by the cabinet to be increased by <a>Rs.2500\/-\n<\/a>has not been accordingly increased as the National&nbsp; Minimum Wage Act No: 04&nbsp; of 2016 has not been amended in order to\nimplement the approved <a>salary increase.<\/a><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Rs.2,500\/- salary increase for the public <a>sector <\/a>employees has not been given to the employees in the semi Government sector and as a result, more than 500,000 employees in this sector have been deprived their due salary increase.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While thanking Your Excellency for appointing a new Salary and Carder\u2019s <a>Commission<\/a> to cover public, semi-government and the private sector, we wish to draw your attention to the fact that there are no trade union representatives included representing private and semi-government sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We, therefore, urge you to take immediate steps to rectify the above-mentioned anomalies in favour of these sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further, we would like to urge you to give us and an opportunity to meet your honour to discuss above mention matters with more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank You<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yours Faithfully<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lesly\nDevendra&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>Anton Marcus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General Secretary,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><strong>Co Secretary<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nidahas Sewaka Sangamaya  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Free Trade Zones &amp; <\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; General Services Employees Union<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Silvester Jayakody&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lines\nJayathilaka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General Secretary,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; United Federation\nof Labour,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ceylon Mercantile and <\/strong><strong>General Workers Union,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ranjan Perera<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp; Secretary,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>National Union of Seafarers<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ceylon Mercantile and General Workers Union, His Excellency the President Gotabaya RajapakshaPresident of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri LankaPresidential SecretariatColombo 01. Your excellency, We the undersigned trade unions of the Sri Lanka Council of the IndustriAll Global Union representing the private sector and semi Government sector employees, wish to draw your immediate attention to [&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-99564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99564","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=99564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}