Estate workers’ salary increase effective from today
March 1, 2020 12:16 pm
The increase in the daily wage of estate workers up to Rs1000 will be effective from today (01).
Through his manifesto, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had decided to pay the estate workers a minimum daily wage of Rs 1000.
The relevant proposal received the approval of the Cabinet on February 14.
As the estate companies are entitled to concessions as tax concessions, fertilizer subsidies and other benefits already in place and the benefits should be extended to the estate owner as well, the President emphasized.
Meanwhile, MP Vadivel Suresh said that if Sajith Premadasa was the president, the estate workers would have been paid a salary of Rs 1500.
