Labor and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said that steps will be taken to raise the wages of plantation workers by the end of this month.
He said that President Ranil Wickramasinghe gave him the relevant orders and instructions before he went abroad.
The minister disclosed this when he joined a program held yesterday (15).
Throughout the past period, the plantation workers in Sri Lanka had made many requests to raise their wages.
In the meantime, the minister pointed out that measures are being taken to open many new foreign employment opportunities for the youth community in this country and as a result, it was possible to create opportunities for 10,000 agro-industrial jobs in Israel in the past.
Accordingly, the minister himself revealed that he will work to open employment opportunities in the Korean agricultural sector in the future.
Labor and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said that if Ranil Wickramasinghe had not become the president of this country, the parliament would have been set on fire, the dollar would have gone up by more than a thousand rupees, and this country would have become a country where money is carried in a wheel barrow to buy a loaf of bread.
The minister said that at the time when the system change requested by the people is taking place, the Janata Vimukti Peramuna, the United National Party, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party should all come together without being divided and that the platform for that has been built through the “United National People”, and the journey of making Ranil Wickremesinghe the president once again is going forward.
Tikiri Kobbakaduwa