{"id":8149,"date":"2020-02-13T09:07:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8149"},"modified":"2020-02-13T09:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-13T09:07:45","slug":"still-no-deal-on-rs-1000-daily-wage-for-plantation-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/still-no-deal-on-rs-1000-daily-wage-for-plantation-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Still no deal on Rs. 1000 daily wage for plantation workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Government says discussions are still ongoing to reach an agreement on the proposed Rs. 1000 daily wage for plantation workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Minister of Plantations and Export Agriculture, Ramesh Pathirana said that the Government is confident an agreement will be reached by 1st March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking to reporters today, Pathirana said that the plantation companies have proposed three models to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The plantation companies are proposing a productivity based wage model, which they say has proven to be successful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They have also sought some government assistance in order to pay the Rs. 1000 daily wage and ensure the industry does not collapse as a result.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had proposed that the daily wage of plantation workers be increased to Rs. 1000 by 1st March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Plantation companies have informed the government that an unfair push to pay Rs. 1000 to plantation workers could have a serious impact on the local industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Pathirana said that the Government is prepared to step in temporarily to help the companies pay the Rs. 1000 daily wage to the estate workers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Government says discussions are still ongoing to reach an agreement on the proposed&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news","category-upcountry-tamils"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}