Sri Lanka’s Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment, Manusha Nanayakkara, announced that the cabinet has approved a proposal to provide social security benefits to all workers aged 55 and above in various industries.The post Sri Lanka to provide Social Security Benefits for All Workers aged 55 and above appeared first on Sri Lanka News | Breaking News & Top Stories in Sri Lanka | ONLANKA.
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The total daily payment for workers in the Tea Growing and Manufacturing Trade in Sri Lanka has been increased to Rs. 1,700.The post Sri Lanka raises daily payment for tea industry workers appeared first on Sri Lanka News | Breaking News & Top Stories in Sri Lanka | ONLANKA.
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The Sri Lankan government plans to increase the interest rate of the Employee’s Provident Fund (EPF) from the existing 9 percent to 13 percent, effective from 2013.The post Sri Lanka set to increase EPF interest rates to 13% appeared first on Sri Lanka News | Breaking News & Top Stories in Sri
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[…]The post Mr. President, Dawn Of The New Year Is The Time For Reflection & To Redress Citizens Grievances Due To The DDO appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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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 […]
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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
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[…]The post Nandalal Weerasinghe’s Wages Of Sin appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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[…]The post Playing The Fiddle While The Country Burns! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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… 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
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[…]The post Economy 2024: More Challenging Than The Two Previous Years appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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මෙරට ආර්ථිකය බංකොලොත් බව ප්රකාශ කර විදේශීය ණය කපා හැරීම පිළිබඳව සාකච්ඡා කරන්නේ යැයි මුලින්ම ප්රකාශ කළ ද, ඊට අදාළ […]The post EPF අරමුදල් කප්පාදුවට තිබූ තදියම විදේශ ණයවලට අදාළ නැති බව මහ බැංකු අධිපති හෙළිකරයි appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.
[…]The post Hoping Against Hope In The New Year appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදලේ කොන්දේසි ඉටුකරමින් දේශීය ණය කපාහැරීම යටතේ සේවක අර්ථසාදක අරමුදල ඇතුළු විශ්රාම අරමුදල්වලට මෙතෙක් හිමිවෙමින් තිබූ ප්රතිලාභ කපා […]The post EPF කැපූ ආණ්ඩුව පන්නන්න 77%ක් පෙළගැසෙයි appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.
[…]The post No Democratic Logic To Hold Provincial Council Elections In 2025 appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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විදේශ ණය කපාහරින බව මුලදී ප්රචාරය කළ රනිල් පොහොට්ටු හවුල් ආණ්ඩුව මේ වනවිට දේශීය ණය කපාහැරීම යටතේ සේවක අර්ථසාධක අරමුදලෙන් […]The post EPF එකෙන් ට්රිලියන 3.5ක් කපා දැමූ ආණ්ඩුව රාජ්ය බැංකු වෙන්දේසි කරන හැටි appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri Lanka.
[…]The post IMF Shows It Cares More Than Government appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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By Saman Indrajith President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday that the government was planning to place the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF) and the Employees’ Trust Fund (ETF) under a new independent body. The President said part of the EPF and ETF monies
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[…]The post Sri Lanka At A Crossroads: The IMF’s 16-Point Prescription For Reform appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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ණය ප්රතිව්යූහගතකරණය කිරීමේදී විදේශීය ණය සඳහා මේ දක්වා කිසිවක් නොකළ ආණ්ඩුව දේශීය ණය ලබා ගෙන තිබෙන විශ්රාමික අරමුදල් කප්පාදු කිරීමෙන් […]The post EPF කොල්ලකෑමෙන් පසුව රනිල් සහ IMF අතර අරවුලක් ඇති බවට ප්රචාරක ව්යාපාරයක් appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri
- මුදල් මුද්රණය නතරකර මහ බැංකුව නිර්දේශපාලනිකරණය කරන්නයි IMF කියයි (Category: Sinhala)
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[…]The post SL Debt Justice Collective Writes Open Letter To IMF On DDO appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
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. ආණ්ඩුවේ නිරීක්ෂණ වැරදියි. EPF අරමුදලට කෝටි 4,900ක බදු වදිනවිට වාණිජ බැංකුවලට කෝටි 200යි. 2038 වනවිට EPF කොල්ලය කෝටි 27,400යි. […]The post ආණ්ඩුව EPF කොල්ලකෑම – සියලු තතු මහ බැංකු නියෝජ්ය අධිපතිවරෙක් හෙළි කරයි appeared first on Lanka Truth | සිංහල | Latest and Breaking News from Sri
- රනිල් දැනටමත් EPF අරමුදල කෝටි දහස් ගණනකින් වට්ටලා (Category: Sinhala)
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