Joint Opposition up in arms over âEPF robberyâ
By Chamodi Gunawardana
The Joint Opposition yesterday claimed that it wouldn’t allow Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to rob Rs. 1.7 trillion of the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF).
Wickremesinghe’s new economic policy revealed in Parliament recently outlines steps to combine the EPF and the Employees’ Trust Fund (ETF) to create a new national pension scheme which he said would be more secure than the present scheme