National Minimum Wage Bill comes into effect

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Colombo, September 11 (Daily Mirror)- The certificate on the Bill titled National Minimum Wage of Workers (Amendment) Bill was signed by Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana today in accordance with Article 79 of the Constitution.

The Second Reading debate regarding the Bill to amend the National Minimum Wage Act No. 3 of 2016 was held in Parliament on September 3. The Bill was passed without amendments and vote.

The Bill provides provisions to increase the minimum wages of private sector workers up to Rs. 17,000.

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Seeya Wednesday, 11 September 2024 05:15 PM

Only 17,000? Whereas Govt servants are to get close to 50,000.

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Sam Wednesday, 11 September 2024 05:45 PM

The estate workers earn much more and other fringe benefits but our people sympathize with them and claims that they are poorly paid. However when our minimum wage is Rs.17,000.00, there is no one to sympathize us. By the way what could anyone do with this minimum wage. It's better to be a tea plucker !

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JD Wednesday, 11 September 2024 05:47 PM

Must be having a severe mental disorder to think a man can survive with 17K.

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CJ Wednesday, 11 September 2024 09:23 PM

Don't get excited if you dont know...this is the minimum rate to calculate salaries for workers whose salaries are calculated on an hourly basis... It is for 200 hours...which is 8 hours per day and thereafter OT is calculated at 1.5 times and holidys at double the rate...Accordingly some one who woks for 45 shifts could make about 70,000 per month...(this is with about 7 days off) so thats not too bad for someone who does not have the skills needed to obtain higher paying jobs....the problem is that most of the people prefer not to work, beg, steal or drive a tuk tuk and complain bitterly that the Politicians have screwed up....once you vote in the Bros the situation will be even worse because most of their voters are lazy bums and will want a shere for their troubles....

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RM Thursday, 12 September 2024 05:56 AM

This bill just makes it illegal for anyone to find work for less than 17,000. E.g. students, fresh grads etc. who need experience to get started.

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Katherine Astbury Thursday, 12 September 2024 02:18 PM

Feel sorry for the small business's that are going to have to let staff go, an unskilled person on the same rate as a skilled person just is not right. How about bring the cost of living down. And stop taxing on bloody everything!!! Air will be next robbing a**h****

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Tony Monday, 16 September 2024 01:35 PM

Who is going to pay for it and how? RW, AKD or SP? Frankly speaking even that is not enough.

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Ranjan Tuesday, 17 September 2024 01:31 PM

It’s common sense. To increase govt servants salaries they will have to rob from the private sector. So the private sector workers will be given a penny to satisfy them and in large will be over taxed and will pay the govt servants demands. This seem to be the same ripple offering duty free vehicle to all MP - Govt as well as opposition

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Thivjan Wednesday, 18 September 2024 09:52 PM

Uhh I dont rhink thats how it works, but that being said private sector workers are underpaid severely because those corporation dont care about paying them adequately they only care about their bottom line. Take Lanka hospital they made a profit of 5 billion Rs yet an MLT working 12 hrs a day 5 days a week only gets paid 20k a month its not because the government is stealing money its purely because of greedy private institutions

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