Category: Sri Lanka

The President of the United Federation of Labour, Swasthika Arulingam, has filed a Special Determination Action on behalf of her Union challenging the constitutionality of the Inland Revenue Amendment Bill which was placed in the order paper of Parliament on the 8th August, 2023. The Petitioner has stated nearly half the account holders of the EPF funds do not even pay taxation while they are earning as some of their salaries are as low as Rs. 21,000. Hence the Parliament has no mandate to pass a legislation which would impose…

In according to BBC Channel 4 video dispatched last night (05-09-2023), Rajapaksa officials are linked to Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka in 2019. See the video below:

BBC Channel 4 News Channel 4 Dispatches has exclusive interviews with high placed whistleblowers who allege that some Sri Lankan government officials were complicit in the bombings. Watch Dispatches: Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings on Channel 4 on Tuesday 5 September at 11:05pm.

The Young Lawyers’ Association invites all Professionals to support the 28th August, Action which Unions have called the ‘Day of Great Robbery’. Unions and workers have organized a day of protest on the 28th of August, questioning the Central Bank Governor and the Government of Sri Lanka on why the retirements savings the EPF/ETF accounts have been singled out and targeted under the guise of domestic debt restructuring (DDR) Economists warn us if the Domestic Debt Restructuring is carried through it will deplete the savings of individual account holders to…