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COLOMBO (News1st): An opposition lawmaker has criticized plans to extend the compulsory retirement age of employees, citing it as an effort to delay payments under a savings scheme in the country. Under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) – a social security scheme introduced in 1958 –
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News1st): An opposition lawmaker has criticized plans to extend the compulsory retirement age of employees, citing it as an effort to delay payments under a savings scheme in the country. Under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) – a social security scheme introduced in 1958 –
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News1st): An opposition lawmaker has criticized plans to extend the compulsory retirement age of employees, citing it as an effort to delay payments under a savings scheme in the country. Under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) – a social security scheme introduced in 1958 –
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News1st): An opposition lawmaker has criticized plans to extend the compulsory retirement age of employees, citing it as an effort to delay payments under a savings scheme in the country. Under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) – a social security scheme introduced in 1958 –
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News1st): An opposition lawmaker has criticized plans to extend the compulsory retirement age of employees, citing it as an effort to delay payments under a savings scheme in the country. Under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) – a social security scheme introduced in 1958 –
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News1st): An opposition lawmaker has criticized plans to extend the compulsory retirement age of employees, citing it as an effort to delay payments under a savings scheme in the country. Under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) – a social security scheme introduced in 1958 –
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (News1st): An opposition lawmaker has criticized plans to extend the compulsory retirement age of employees, citing it as an effort to delay payments under a savings scheme in the country. Under the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) – a social security scheme introduced in 1958 –
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
- Employee retirement age hiked to delay EPF payments : Harsha De Silva (Category: Breaking News)
Around 96 percent of the government s total borrowing requirement via Treasury bonds in 2011 came fr..
2014 T Bond Yield Goes Below One Year T Bill Rate In Secondary Market The rupee further strengthened at Friday’s (September 21) trading due to a mix of sluggish import demand and possible foreign investment in the Government Bond market, a source told this newspaper. As a result, the exchange rate (ER) strengthened by 25 ...
- Money Market’s Illiquid Status Deepens (Category: Breaking News)
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Sept 20, Colombo: Sujeewa Senasinghe, a parliamentarian of Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) today lodged a complaint with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption against the investment of Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees' Trust Fund
Amidst a number of questionable investments in the Colombo Stock Exchange, the Employee s Provident ..
Last week’s weekly Treasury (T) Bill auction saw yields continuing with their upward ascent, with the weighted average yields (WAYs) for 182 and 364 day T Bills rising by seven and four basis points (bps) to 13.02% and 13.27% respectively. However the WAY for the 91 day T Bill stagnated at the 11.36% level, which ...
- Hike Stalled (Category: Breaking News)
- Yields Move Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Market Expects Rate Hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Rate Status (Category: Business)
Aug 15, Colombo: A private sector trade union in Sri Lanka is considering initiating legal action to call for an investigation into the investments made using monies from the private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF).
Aug 12, Colombo: The private sector trade union in Sri Lanka, the Inter Company Employees' Union (ICEU) says the government is once again attempting to introduce a private sector pension scheme to pilfer the monies in the private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF).
- Early Action (Category: Business)
- Investment Mandate (Category: Business)
- Uptrend (Category: Business)
- Credit Status (Category: Business)
Aug 10, Colombo: Attorney General of Sri Lanka has informed the Supreme Court yesterday that the opposition United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera has not deposited the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) monies for the journalists and other staff of the website office
Aug 05, Colombo: Several trade unions in Sri Lanka are to meet tomorrow to decide on the action to be taken against the alleged misuse of Employment Provident Fund (EPF) monies.
A grouping of 22 trade unions from both the state and private sector are to meet on Monday to discuss an action plan in connection with the alleged misuse of workers Employment Provident Fund (EPF) monies. Anton Marcus with the Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees Union (FTZGSEU
- Hunt on for thieves in Dambulla (Category: Breaking News)
- Man who busted library arrested (Category: Breaking News)
- Indian national had no visa (Category: Breaking News)
- Fatal swim for three at Muttur (Category: Breaking News)
But Market’s Illiquid Status Of Such, Drawback In a depressed market, such as that which is facing the Colombo bourse today, the time however is ripe for investors to buy good stocks at bargain prices an economist said. Amal Sanderatne, Director, Frontier Research (Pvt.) Ltd., addressing a seminar on the economy with a focus on ...
- Mafia Manipulates Bourse (Category: Breaking News)
- Bourse’s Volatility Here To Stay (Category: Breaking News)
- Politicos , Brokers ; Bourse’s Tailwind (Category: Breaking News)
- Broker Credit Drives Up Market (Category: Breaking News)
Jun 28, Colombo: Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) says that the private sector pension fund, the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) has lost over Rs. 12 billion in its investments in the Colombo Stock Exchange.
The Employees Trust Fund has donated 75 million rupees as a scholarship grant for students who had excelled in the 2011 Grade Five scholarship examination. A sum of 15,000 rupees will be awarded every year for 5000 students who excel in the Grade Five Scholarship Examination. A cheque for 75 million rupees required to award ...
- ETF scholarships for 4,654 students (Category: Breaking News)
- Helena-area community briefs: Open enrollment assistance, scholarship portal opens, DAISY Award ... (Category: USA, Montana)
- Education Minister admits schoolchildren not getting adequate food (Category: Breaking News)
Jun 27, Colombo: Sri Lanka's private sector retirement instrument, the Employees' Provident Fund (EPF) has welcomed the clarification made by Standard and Poor's (S&P) today that there was no information of any specific incidences occurring of a potential conflict of interest due to the Central
Hambantota is claimed to be an ‘emerging hub’ of various sorts – shipping, aviation, tourism, industrialisation, cultural and international sports of various kinds. An unfortunate feature appears to be that in recent years it is emerging to be an epicentre of domestic political crime. A harbinger to this regrettable development was on the eve of ...
- Hold funerals in a peaceful manner Magistrate orders (Category: Breaking News)
- Two killed in shooting at JVP rally (Category: Breaking News)
- Shooting at JVP meeting; two killed (Category: Breaking News)
- We demand Secretary to the Ministry of Defence be removed from post immediately - Mangala Samara... (Category: Breaking News)
Jun 22, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe has asked the government to disclose the present position of investments made by the country's private sector retirement funds, Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees Trust Fund (ETF).
Cabinet could be held responsible for the controversial investments made out of the EPF and ETF funds at the Colombo Stock market (CSE) opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe said.
Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today demanded that the Government inform the House of the present position of the investments made by utilizing the funds belonging to the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and Employees Trust Fund (ETF). Making special statement in Parliament, the Opposition
- Seminar on EPF/ETF and employee benefits (Category: Business)
- PB: Will Amend EPF And ETF Acts (Category: Breaking News)
- Separate funds for Private Pension (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Opposition Leader alleges of government trying use EPF and ETF monies through pension ... (Category: Breaking News)
Jun 21, Colombo: Responding to a statement made by the rating agency Standard & Poor on the country's private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), the Central Bank Wednesday said that there is no conflict of interest as a result of the EPF investing in shares of banks.
, Employees Provident Fund (EPF).
- Facebook Privacy Becoming Harder To Protect (Category: USA, Georgia)
- Bus strike called off (Category: Breaking News)
- Complaints to Sri Lanka Elections Commissioner of misusing private buses for elections (Category: Breaking News)
- No increase in bus fares Minister (Category: Breaking News)
Jun 12, Colombo: A parliamentary committee appointed by the leader of Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party to inquire into the widespread allegations of irregularities in managing the private sector retirement fund, Employees' Provident Fund (EPF), is to hand over its report next week
“The demoralising, destructive character of the patriotic degeneracy….” Sebastian Haffner (Germany: Jekyll and Hyde) By Tisaranee Gunasekara It was the Oxford Debacle all over again. The events were drearily predicable. Sri Lanka, like every Commonwealth nation, received an invitation for the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Queen Elizabeth II. President Rajapaksa, unlike most Commonwealth leaders,...
- Protest stage in London against the arrival of President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- President leaves for UK (Category: Breaking News)
- Commonwealth parliamentary session to be held in SL (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa to be guest of honour at CWG closing (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka’s Employees’ Provident Fund which is the largest private pension fund in the country once again reiterated that it has diligently followed all internal guidelines in relation to the assessment, analysis and investment in the Stock market. It also says the investments it had made in the stock market had the approval of the Investment ...
- UNP vows to prove the truth (Category: Business)
- Should the EPF gamble with public money by investing on junk Stocks (Category: Breaking News)
- EPF and ETF tangled up! (Category: Business)
- EPF reiterates it has followed Investment Policy Guidelines (Category: Business)
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