Thursday, 13 July 2017

Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) Director-General/CEO Kanishka Weerasinghe was recently appointed to the Standards Review Mechanism (SRM) Tripartite Working Group (TWG) that functions under...
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Monday, 19 June 2017

Organisations today want to have healthier HR practices besides just having laws and by- laws to govern them. As part of healthy HR practices, many organizations have embarked on retaining talent and...
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Thursday, 01 June 2017

The attention of members is drawn to the recent floods and landslides that have been caused due to heavy rains which some parts of our country experienced recently. We are mindful that the...
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Thursday, 01 June 2017

As members are aware, the recent heavy rains have caused floods and landslides in several parts of the country and the consequences have been severe. It was sad to hear that apart from the losses...
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Monday, 29 May 2017

National Human Resources Development Council of Sri Lanka Chairman Dinesh Weerakkody points out that an important factor on which the success of Sri Lanka’s economic development plan hinges on its...
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Monday, 15 May 2017

Mervyn Dirckze, an ‘institution’ at the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon, has published a book of tips on office lifeBy Randima AttygalleWhen the Rector at St. Peter’s College suggested to...
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Tuesday, 09 May 2017

Bogawantalawa Tea Estates PLC, renowned for its outstanding quality of tea grown in the Golden Valley nestling in the central hills, is perhaps the world’s first tea growing, manufacturing and...
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Monday, 08 May 2017

According to the latest ILO estimates, 1.4 million work-related deaths occur annually in Asia and the Pacific out of the 2.3 million worldwide. This means the region accounts for 70 per cent of...
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Friday, 05 May 2017

Welcoming women into the workforce is not just a human rights issue, but smart economicsWomen seeking to enter the workplace in Sri Lanka face a multitude of challenges, including gender...
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Wednesday, 03 May 2017

Ms Anne-Marie Mineur, MEPMs Lola Sanchez Caldentey, MEPEuropean Union in Sri Lanka389 Bauddhaloka MawathaColombo 7Your Excellencies and Members of the Delegation,We write with reference to your...
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Wednesday, 03 May 2017

Marking this year’s World Occupational Safety and Healthy Day (OSH Day) on 28 April, celebrated by the International Labour Organization (ILO), the Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) is...
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Tuesday, 25 April 2017

By Zahara Zuhair  A group of private sector employers recently requested the government to provide further relief to them with regard to the budgetary relief allowance, which is making a massive...
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Tuesday, 25 April 2017

In the world of work, wages are best set through sound evidence and social dialogue. This was the key message from an ILO-supported workshop on minimum wage setting in Sri Lanka.  The workshop...
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Thursday, 06 April 2017

The private sector is apprehensive about State intervention in wage-related matters and wants the Government to adopt a more consultative approach, a survey conducted by the Employers’ Federation...
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