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Based on the Workers' Councils in Yugoslavia, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) proposed the formation of Workers' Councils as far back as 1951. This was included in the manifesto of the collation between the LSSP and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and was rejected in the 1965 Ceylonese parliamentary election.
The employer of every employee to whom this Act applies shall be liable to pay an amount equal to three per centum (3%) of the total earnings including Wages, salary or fees, Cost of living allowance, special living allowance and other similar allowances, Payment in respect of holidays, The cost value of cooked or uncooked food provided by the employer to employees, Meal allowance and Any ...
The National Union of Workers (NUW) (Tamil: தொழிலாளர் தேசிய சங்கம், romanized: Toḻilāḷar Tēciya Caṅkam; Sinhala: කම්කරු ජාතික සංගමය, romanized: Kamkaru Jātika Saṁgamaya) is an active trade union representing workers in the tea plantations of Sri Lanka.
The employees were treated abominably: one owner allegedly tied a bus conductor to a tree and spanked the poor man for failing to bring in the targeted collection for the day. [citation needed] Trade union work was an uphill task and members of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) had to proceed in secret, disguising themselves to avoid company ...
The Ceylon Workers' Congress (CWC) (Tamil: இலங்கை தொழிலாளர் காங்கிரஸ், romanized: Ilaṅkai Toḻilāḷar Kāṅkiras; Sinhala: ලංකා කම්කරු කොංග්රසය Lanka Kamkaru Kongrasaya) is a political party in Sri Lanka that has traditionally represented Sri Lankan Tamils of Indian origin working in the plantation ...
The legal system in Sri Lanka comprises collections of codified and uncodified forms of law, of many origins subordinate to the Constitution of Sri Lanka which is the highest law of the island. Its legal framework is a mixture of legal systems of Roman-Dutch law , English law , Kandian law , Thesavalamai and Muslim law .
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FTZ discontent still exists in parts of Sri Lanka today, and the Sri Lankan government still struggles to from a positive relationship with its FTZ workers. In 2018, workers at a glove factory in Katunayake, the same site of the 2011 protests, began protesting against FTZ unions for alleged labour abuses.