by Jayasri Priyalal Jayasripriyalal59@gmail.com The greatest challenges confronting the nation-states in the current era revolve around; deplorable debt, depleted natural resources, and degraded environment. Economic growth and future prosperity for all living beings are stalled due to the varying degrees of the 3D problems emerging out of ill-conceived policy divergences propelling the linear eco...

By Chaminda Silva President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday said that if plantation company owners go before the courts against government’s directive of a minimum wage hike for estate workers, he would take the side of the workers and extend legal assistance to them, party sources said. The President issued instructions to Labour Minister Manusha Nanayakkara […]

President’s decision to increase daily wage of plantation workers By Rathindra Kuruwita The Planters’ Association of Ceylon (PAC) said yesterday (02) that they were not in a position to raise the daily wage of tea plantation workers to Rs 1,700 despite President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s declaration during a May Day rally that the minimum daily wage […]

වතු කම්කරුවන්ට ගෙවිය යුතු රුපියල් බිලියන 5ක් පමණ වූ හිග ඊටීඑෆ් සහ ඊපීඑෆ් මුදල් ගෙවීම සදහා වන කැබිනට් පත්රිකාව කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට අද ඉදිරිපත් කරන බව රාජ්ය අමාත්ය රංජිත් සියඹලාපිටිය මහතා පවසනවා. වතු කළමනාකරණය සදහා නව අධිකාරියක් ද පිහිටුවන බවයි රාජ්ය අමාත්යවරයා පවසන්නේ.      The post වතු කම්කරුවන්ගේ ETF සහ EPF හිඟය ගෙවන්න කැබිනට් පත්රිකාවක් appeared first on ITN News.

සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල සඳහා ගෙවනු ලබන පොලී අනුපාතය සියයට 9 සිට සියයට 13 ක් දක්වා ඉහළ දැමීමට රජය තීරණය කර තිබේ.

Steps are being taken to increase the interest rate of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) from the existing 9% to 13% with effect from 2023, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said.

By Rathindra Kuruwita The GL Peiris-led splinter group of the SLPP, the Nidahasa Janatha Sabawa (NJS), has signed an MOU with the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) to form an alliance in view of upcoming elections on Friday (05). Six NJS MPs, namely, Professor Peiris, Dilan Perera, K.P. Kumarasiri, Upali Galappatty, Wasantha Yapa Bandara and  Nalaka […]

The former General Manager of the Coconut Cultivation Board was arrested for allegedly misappropriating over Rs. 77 million from the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), police said.The post Former Coconut Cultivation Board GM arrested for alleged Rs. 77 million misappropriation appeared first on ONLANKA - Sri Lanka Latest Breaking News and Top Stories.

රාජ්ය වැවිලි සේවකයින්ගේ නොගෙවූ අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් පියවීම සදහා රුපියල් බිලියන 5ක මුදලක් භාණ්ඩාගාරය වෙන්කරන බව රාජ්ය අමාත්ය රංජිත් සියඹලාපිටිය මහතා පවසනවා. ඊට අදාළ කැබිනට් පත්රිකාව ඉදිරි සති දෙක තුළ අමාත්ය මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට නියමිත බවයි අමාත්යවරයා සදහන් කළේ.                The post රාජ්ය වැවිලි සේවකයින්ට EPF ගෙවීමට භාණ්ඩාගාරයෙන් බිලියන 5ක් appeared first on...

By Shamindra Ferdinando SLPP National List MP Gevindu Cumaratunga and member of Uththara Lanka Sabhagaya has moved the Supreme Court seeking equal treatment to all members of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF). Cumaratunga, who is also the President of Yuthukama National OrganiSation has acted in terms of Article 126 read with Article 17 of the […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Gevindu Cumaratunga, MP, has sought Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s intervention to ensure State Finance Minister Shehan Semasinghe on behalf of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who holds the Finance portfolio, provided a satisfactory answer to several queries he raised regarding the status of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) as at 31 Dec., 2022. In […]

 … draws attention to discrepancy in beneficial interest rates for EPF members By Shamindra Ferdinando Dissident SLPP lawmaker Gevindu Cumaratunga yesterday (18) said that the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government owed an explanation how the Governing Board of the Central Bank had approved a massive salary increase to CBSL employees at a time the country was experiencing developing […]

The Supreme Court has set a date to consider the Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions filed claiming that the rights of members of both, the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) and the Employees Trust Fund (ETF) are being violated as a result of the government s Domestic Debt Restructuring (DDO) programme.

…. asks whether IMF is blind By Shamindra Ferdinando Dissident SLPP MP Gevindu Cumaratunga faults Parliament for continuing to allow a special category of EPF (Employees’ Provident Fund) recipients, created since 2022, regardless of the matter being brought to the attention of Parliament. Addressing the media at Sri Sambudhathva Jayantha Mandiraya, Cumaratunga said that in […]