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The previous decision to raise the minimum age limit of female migrant domestic workers to Middle East countries is to be implemented with immediate effect, government media reported.

With Sri Lanka focusing on sending more skilled labour who would fetch enhanced salaries abroad, Minister for Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare Dilan Perera expects Sri Lankan migrant worker remittances to pass seven billion US dollars in 2013.

Sri Lanka has sent over two and half lakhs of persons for foreign employment during the last year and they have substantially contributed to the country’s economic well-being. It is the government’s intention to send well-trained persons for employment to any part of the world without limiting them to the Middle East and it is with this intention that

Apr 16, Tangalle: Si Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa today opened the first Vocational Training Center for Migrant Workers set up by the Bureau of Foreign Employment at Godigamuwa in Tangalle.

Labour Minister Gamini Lokuge said that a number of skilled workers in Sri Lanka will be replaced with nationals according to the new policy decision taken by the government.

88 Sri Lankan migrant workers who had traveled to Kuwait & Saudi Arabia in search of foreign employment and were subjected to harassment arrived in the island this morning.

The Government is to reduce the number of Indian skilled workers in Sri Lanka and replace them with Sri Lankans, Labour Minister Gamini Lokuge said.

Sri Lankan domestic workers will soon be benefited by a proposed new law in the West Asia which provides for a compulsory weekly off day, keeping their passport and the option of returning home within three months of taking a new job if there are problems in the workplace.