{"id":49050,"date":"2016-10-18T16:28:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T20:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49050"},"modified":"2016-10-18T20:56:44","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T00:56:44","slug":"plantation-worker-daily-wage-increased-by-rs-100-from-650-to-750-after-weeks-of-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49050","title":{"rendered":"Daily Wage of Plantation Workers to go up by Rs 110  from  620 to 730 Announces Labour Minister John Seneviratne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Labour and Trade Union Relations Minister John Seneviratne yesterday announced that following discussions in Colombo between plantation employees and the trade unions, an agreement had been reached to increase the wages of estate workers to Rs. 730 a day and provide them 300-days work a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An agreement was also signed yesterday effective for two-years from October 15, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister said now the plantation workers were paid a daily wage of Rs. 620 and it was revised every two years in keeping with a mutual agreement between the employers and trade unions.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p> The two-year agreement expired on March 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>According to the agreement signed yesterday a worker will receive a basic wage of Rs. 500, an attendance incentive of Rs. 60, fixed price fair supplement of Rs. 30 production incentive of Rs.140, totalling Rs. 730 a day.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister after signing the agreement said, &#8220;We need to uplift the living standards of over 200,000 plantation workers keeping in mind the crisis situation on the plantations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the Ceylon Workers Congress demanded that the arrears in wages also be paid, but it had been informed why that demand could not be met. <\/p>\n<p><em>Courtesy:The Island<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"tweetbutton49050\" class=\"tw_button\" style=\"float:right;margin-left:10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdbsjeyaraj.com%2Fdbsj%2F%3Fp%3D49050&amp;text=Daily%20Wage%20of%20Plantation%20Workers%20to%20go%20up%20by%20Rs%20110%20%20from%20%20620%20to%20730%20Announces%20Labour%20Minister%20John%20Seneviratne&amp;related=&amp;lang=en&amp;count=horizontal\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  style=\"width:55px;height:22px;background:transparent url('https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-tweet-button\/tweetn.png') no-repeat  0 0;text-align:left;text-indent:-9999px;display:block;\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour and Trade Union Relations Minister John Seneviratne yesterday announced that following discussions in Colombo between plantation employees and the trade unions, an agreement had been reached to increase the wages of estate workers to Rs. 730 a day and provide them 300-days work a year. An agreement was also signed yesterday effective for two-years &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/?p=49050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Daily Wage of Plantation Workers to go up by Rs 110  from  620 to 730 Announces Labour Minister John Seneviratne&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49060,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49050\/revisions\/49060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dbsjeyaraj.com\/dbsj\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}