Although a date has not been fixed to announce the daily wage increment through the Wages Board, it is learnt that no sooner the gazette is published, the wage increment will take effect immediately. The RPCs opposed our decision to increase the daily wage to Rs. 1,000 daily wage that was promised to the workers,” Labour Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told The Sunday Morning. Estate workers misled1000 Movement Co-convenor Chinthaka Rajapakse stated: “The RPCs and the Government seem to have conveniently disregarded the demand of the plantation workers to increase their daily basic wage to Rs. The Government and the TUs have again misled the public by saying that the daily wage will be increased to Rs.

Source: The Nation February 14, 2021 00:00 UTC