Issuing Gazette Notification On Increasing Daily Wages Of Estate Workers Has Been Temporarily Suspended

Issuing the  Gazette Notification regarding the increasing daily wages of Estate Workers to Rs.855 has been temporarily suspended by the Prime Minister Ranil Wikramasinghe today (01) accordance to a request made by Tamil Progressive Alliance.

Accordingly the Gazette Notification will not issue until next Tuesday (05).

The decision has  been taken after a meeting held between Prime Minister Wikramasinghe and the Parliamentary Group of Tamil Progressive Alliance at Temple Trees today .

Ministers representing the Alliance Mano Ganeshan and Palani Digambaram are on the view that the daily wages of Estate Workers should be increased up to Rs.1000.