Taking a cue from the success of the smallholder sector, Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) handed over fresh proposals aimed at radically increasing worker earnings during a recently concluded meeting with the Minister of Labour and Trade Unions leaders.
The newly introduced proposal provides for a hybrid between the daily wage model and the productivity-linked earning systems implemented with great success in the smallholder sector. Adding a productivity based component will ensure that worker earnings are expanded, and workers have more flexibility and control over their monthly earnings.
Under the new proposals, RPCs will continue to offer a fixed daily wage with the re-introduction of attendance and productivity incentives. In a notable departure from previous years, the RPCs have proposed a mix of 3 days of daily wage and 3 days of productivity-based earnings, where workers will have the capacity to expand their earnings based on their output.
RPCs submit radical new proposal aimed at transforming earnings in the plantation sector
December, 23, 2020
Taking a cue from the success of the smallholder sector, Sri Lanka’s Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) handed over fresh proposals aimed at radically expanding worker earnings during a recently concluded meeting with the Minister of Labour and Trade Unions leaders.
The newly introduced proposal provides for a hybrid between the daily wage model and the productivity-linked earning systems implemented with great success in the smallholder sector. Adding a productivity based component will ensure that worker earnings are expanded, and workers have more flexibility and control over their monthly earnings.
Thursday, 24 December 2020 00:16 -
Plantation companies propose hybrid between daily wage and productivity-linked earnings
Insist on need for output incentives with 3 days of daily wages and 3 based on productivity
Says proposal will give daily wage of Rs. 1,000-1,025 at a minimum
Taking a cue from the success of the smallholder sector, Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) have handed over fresh proposals aimed at radically expanding worker earnings during a recently-concluded meeting with the Minister of Labour and Trade Union leaders, the organisation said in a statement yesterday.
The newly-introduced proposal provides for a hybrid between the daily wage model and the productivity-linked earning systems implemented with great success in the smallholder sector. Adding a productivity-based component will ensure that worker earnings are expanded and workers have more flexibility and control over their monthly earnings, the RPCs said.
kithul palm and on this Thursday morning,
Kussi Amma Sera – before joining her friends for their under-the-margosa-tree weekly gossip – brought a mug of steaming tea to the office room with a piece of jaggery, saying: “Sir,
meh hakuru harima rasai (Sir, this jaggery is very tasty).” I love jaggery and without batting an eyelid, I ate the entire piece (a big one) before even sipping the tea! Yes, it was tasty and the real thing. You also have fake jaggery, a little bit of
kithul and lots of sugar.
The conversation under the margosa tree was also about jaggery and treacle. “