Sri Lanka’s Employers Federation of Ceylon (EFC) on Monday clarified reports that it was asking all institutions to switch to a 5-day working week, saying what the EFC was requesting was only for employers and workers who require flexibility in their working hours.
“Firstly, our proposal is not to have a uniform rule with regard to a 5-day week for the private sector. The rationale behind our proposal is to enable employers who require the flexibility of spreading over working hours over the five days to do so without any additional payment.
The working arrangements of a 5-day week therefore cannot be uniformly applied and what is required is to give the flexibility and the discretion to the employers and the workers in each establishment to decide on it,” EFC Director General Ravi Peiris said in a January 3 letter to Minister of Labour & Labour Relations Gamini Lokuge. The letter, also copied to the media, sought to clarify what Mr Peiris called ‘some misunderstanding in relation to this matter’. |
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