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Cabinet takes measures to resolve railway workers’ problems
10May By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
LOCAL, Top Story

Cabinet takes measures to resolve railway workers’ problems

The cabinet of ministers has decided to take measures to resolve the problems faced by railway employees and fulfill their demands, the Deputy Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation, Ashoka Abeysinghe said. The Deputy Minister said the salary increase demanded by the railway employees has been discussed in the cabinet meeting on Wednesday. A cabinet subcommittee has been appointed under the chairmanship of Minister Sarath Amunugama to resolve the salary anomalies and the decisions taken by the committee have been informed to the Cabinet. Despite the measure the railway workers have decided to launch a strike. Accordingly the strike launched by railway unions demanding the government to rectify salary anomalies was called off in less than an hour after it was launched yesterday. ...
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Railway strike called off Railways, Health, Education to be closed services
14Dec By Faraz ShauketalyNo Comments
LOCAL, Main Story

Railway strike called off Railways, Health, Education to be closed services

By Rathindra Kuruwita and Shaahidah Riza In a bid to resolve continuous contentious salary issues in the Railways, Health and Education sectors, the Government has decided to make all three sectors closed services. Co-Cabinet Spokesman, Minister of Health, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said successful discussions with railway unions led to the suspension of their seven-day strike. Under the closed services agreement, the Government was contemplating to even give higher than expected raise in salaries to railway workers. As far as the strike was concerned, "The issue was technical and this dates back to the decision to reduce salary scales of the State Sector from 132 to 32 in 2006. This has lead to serious recurrent issues as it was impossible to encompass 1.5 million State Sector employees ...
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