no doubt is there any recent development in labor law uh actually i will go for one document right so before we go for it right i will put it in the screen you just look at it or give me a minute i will go for it actually it has been gasseted yesterday It has been gased yesterday. Give me a minute. i have noted somewhere i will i will look for it uh i will in the next class because i'm unable to trace it but i will go for another document actually right so because that is actually based on my recent presentation right I will put it in the screen. Can you see the presentation in the screen?
Can you? Can you see the presentation in the screen? Yes, sir.
Okay. So there are about three or four slides. Since we are near the end of this course, I think already many topics have been covered.
So then I will go one by one, right? Because when it comes to these recommendations I have made, covering all the areas, right? So I will go one by one.
First, I will go for the first slide. There are only four slides, not many, because it was a very brief one, right? So you first you look at the recommendations thereafter I will explain. Thereafter I will explain first you look at them. I will give you about two minutes.
can we go for the recommendations okay now you have to tell me why whatever the first one why i have gone for the first recommendation what's the reason i think many of you have experience also in hrm yes i should why i have gone for the first recommendation is there any reason behind this anyone previously wages boards can oral appointment letters uh not a written appointment letters can be oral employment conditions terms and conditions yes very good when it comes to the shulangan labor laws right we have section 17 in the shop and office employees act which requires an employee to give a written letter of appointment but what happens in is you know when it comes to the employees in the offices generally they get the letter of appointment but the employees in the shops do not get a letter letter of appointment but when it comes to the workers in other workplaces other than shops and offices we don't have any law which requires the employees to give a letter of appointment so it is not a mandatory legal requirement in sri lanka you to establish employee employee relationship also but we have on the requirement under the shop and office employees like section 17 not under any other labor agency because the shop and office employees act applies only to the employees who work in shops and offices whatever the employees in the other workplaces so then because now we have a serious problem because of the emerging forms of employments gig workers working from home online workers homework course right we have go for different different work arrangements so therefore it is better to you know make it as a legal requirement okay the second one the second recommendation is for one reason why i have made the second recommendation so why i have made a second recommendation is there any reason for it anyone anyone seasonal employees casual employees seasonal employees and temporary employees sometimes working there. Any other reason? Because I think, anyone else?
Because in Sri Lanka, when it comes to the working hours, overtime hours, overtime payments, intervals, holidays and all, we have two legislations. one is the shopper of his employees right i think most of you come under that other one is the wages boards so the wages boards also can make the decision with regard to the trades for which the wages boards have been established right but we have wages sports only you know for 44 trades but when it comes to the employees who are not covered by these two things we don't have any law we don't have any law For example, fishermen employed by the owner of the fishing trawler. What is the law we have about their working hours, overtime hours, 40 days and all? What is the law we have? Nothing.
Even when it comes to these teachers in the international schools and the private universities and all, you know, the teachers are not coming under the Swapanobis employee's act because teachers work in the classrooms. and also we don't have a wages board for them but for but conveniently what happens is you know the management of the school or the university gives the letter of appointment based on the shop on office employees and they happily accept it because generally the terms and conditions of employment under the shop and office employees act are much better than the wages boards this season but there are many many categories of workers who are not covered by the shop on office employees at the same time we don't have wages boards for them so that is why what i say is we have to have a law applicable to all workers but as it is now we are three categories of workers in the private sector one is the employees coming under the shopper office employee side other one is the workers who come under the wages boards third one is not coming under any of these things okay the next one is what part-time work and homework uh can you tell tell us whether part-time work is prohibited or permitted part-time work homework of course yes my question is part-time work it is permitted or prohibited anyone part-time work is prohibited or permitted actually i have written one article also if you want i can share it with you but it is not prohibited under our labor laws right not prohibited but not regulated not regulated so but my argument is it should be properly regulated but the part-time work is not prohibited but payment could be made wages or payment remuneration would be made based on pro rata basis even epa vt of contributions also should be made based on the payment made at the end of the month. Vacuity also should be paid based on the last month's salary but maybe not a full payment, maybe payment may be pro rata basis because for an example if a full-time worker gets 800 rupees per day then if a worker works as a partner