Parliament Speaker signs bill to raise minimum wages

Sri Lanka’s Parliament Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Wednesday signed a bill to raise the monthly minimum wage by 12.5 per cent, days ahead of the island nation’s presidential elections.

The Speaker endorsed the certificate on the bill titled ‘National Minimum Wage of Workers (Amendment) Bill’ in accordance with article 79 of the Constitution, the Parliament’s Media office said in a statement.

The second reading debate on the bill to amend the National Minimum Wage Act No. 3 of 2016 was held in Parliament on September 3. The bill was passed without amendments and a vote.

Source: PT