A. Brief Introduction of Labour Laws and Regulations All employees in Sri Lanka, including expatriate staff and workers, enjoy the rights and entitlements provided under Sri Lankan labour law. The key labour laws include the following: a) The Shop and Office Employees (Regulation of Employment and...
Unlike The Pearl Fishers— in which all the characters are Sri Lankan–Delibes’s Lakme revolves around the romance between Gerald, a soldier serving in British India, and the Hindu priestess, Lakme. As Mackenzie states: “Here a British officer loves an Indian woman who sacrifices herself to ...
For the past thirty years, Sri Lanka has been applying firm legislation in terms of labour laws. It is the only country in Asia to have signed up to 27 conventions with the international labour organisation: a ban on child and forced labour, working hours (45 hours a week at the most)...
Is Sri Lankan Customs Fit for Purpose? -By A Special Correspondent (Lanka-e-News -12.Jan.2025, 8.40 PM) Ah, Sri Lankan Customs—an institution often seen as the “unsmiling uncle” of the shipping world. The topic might not seem as glamorous as the beaches of Bentota or the tea estate...
“Extensive discussions were held between President Dissanayake and Minister Sitharaman on enhancing Indo-Sri Lankan economic cooperation and expanding investment opportunities between the two countries,” the President’s media office said. “The talks also covered bringing more Indian tourists to Sri Lank...
By Suresh Ranasinghe The impact of COVID-19 on Sri Lanka’s labour market, education, migration, and health sectors were discussed at the second webinar panel discussion held on October 13, to mark the release of the ‘Sri Lanka: State of the Economy
Sep 30 (LG) Sri Lankans of all communities participated in the Ramadan Iftar hosted by the Sri Lanka Islamic Forum UK (SLIF-UK) held on the 07th September 2009 Monday at the London Muslim Centre, Whitechapel, London. This year’s lftar was sponsored by world Islamic call society and faci...
Sri Lankan rupee The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) is a pear-shaped island off of the southern coast of India having nearly 22 million people, which obtained its independence from Great Britain in 1948. Sri Lanka has a Buddhist majority (70%) with roughly 6,...
Extant literature analysing Sri Lankan corporate governance rules has provided few in-depth accounts of the perceptions of the corporate community in Sri Lanka. This is despite the Sri Lankan corporate community being recognised as an “important player,
Sri Lankan manufacturers maintain that they have benefitted from a unique combination of factors, including strict national labour laws, an educated workforce, the characteristics of the garments produced, industrial upgrading, and long-term non-adversarial buyer–supplier relationships, which they argue ...