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COLOMBO (News 1st); Sri Lanka’s Judicial Services Commission issued a series of instructions on Friday (30) to all High Court Judges, Judicial Officers, and Presidents of Labour Tribunals, taking into account the present COVID-19 pandemic situation in the island.
The instructions will be in effect from 03rd May 2021 to 07th May 2021, said a statement.
The instructions are as follows:
01. Calling cases should not be taken up in open courts and the re-scheduled dates of those cases are to be notified by publication of a notice at the entrance to the respective courts.
02. All other hearings to be restricted to a limited number of Trial/Inquiry matters and urgent/essential matters only
Posted on March 14th, 2021
KAMALIKA PIERIS
SOCIAL LEGISLATION
Bandaranaike‘s
government made a lasting contribution
to the social legislation of the country, specially Labour legislation. The MEP government set up Conciliation
Boards , Labour tribunals, The Employees Provident Fund and passed the Prevention
of Social Disabilities Act, No. 21 of 1957.These laws and bodies are now taken for granted. The pioneer role of the MEP is forgotten.
MEP government set up
Conciliation Boards to
facilitate amicable settlement of disputes. The
Conciliation Boards Act No. 10 of 1958
was passed amidst opposition from vested interest. Conciliation Boards were to operate
in all villages. Boards were empowered to settle dispute of a civil nature,
Fri, Jan 1, 2021, 10:49 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Jan 01, Colombo: Labor Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva has revealed that the state and private institutions have not paid contributions to the Employees Provident Fund and owe Rs. 12 billion to the country’s largest retirement scheme.
As at January 1, 2020, 11,549 cases have been filed against public and private institutions for non-payment of EPF contributions and the total number of cases filed so far, including inactive cases, is 16,000, the Minister told state-run daily Dinamina.
The Minister said that the government is focusing on the continued default on contributions by employers and that strict laws will be enforced this year against employers who default on contributions.