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Trade unions meet to decide on action to be taken against CEB suspending 15 workers
The Ceylon Electricity Board unions have convened a meeting with all state and private sector unions on Monday (22) to decide on what to do about the decision taken by authorities to suspend 15 of their workers, Secretary of the Combined Trade Union Alliance of the CEB Ranjan Jayalal, said.
Earlier, CEB spokesman Engineer Noel Priyantha said they have interdicted 15 employees for disrupting services during a protest against the proposed restructuring of the state-owned electricity supplier seen by many as unwieldy in its current state.
“They have interdicted 15. Apparently they have a list with over 100 names that they want to punish. We will not allow this. We have convened a meeting with all state and private unions on Monday and decide on a course of action,” Jayalal said.
He said CEB trade unions carried out a series of protests between 03 and 05 January against the government moves to restructure the entity and the proposed Electricity Bill.
The CEB said those interdicted are clerical staff members in charge of the cash counters. The CEB alleged that these workers prevented customers from paying their bills by closing the payment counters.
Jayalal, however, claimed that services were not disrupted.
The CEB management, prior to the strike, issued a circular cancelling the leave of all employees from 02 January. In December, President Ranil Wickremesinghe declared all services, connected to the electricity supply, as essential public services.
After the three-day trade union action, Minister Kanchana Wijesekera instructed the CEB management to suspend and take appropriate disciplinary action against the employees who disrupted the services, or acted in violation of the guidelines.
The Chartered Computer Institute of Sri Lanka was established in 1976 as the premier and sole body representing professionals in the Information and Communication Technology sector in Sri Lanka. It has recognized the importance of establishing the Sri Lanka Chartered Computer Association as the main professional organization to act on behalf of the interests of professionals representing the computer sector in Sri Lanka, which should be treated equally with other professional organizations that have obtained chartered status and other formal recognition.
Accordingly, taking into account a resolution furnished by the Hon. President, the Cabinet of Ministers has decided to grant policy approval for the establishment of the Chartered Computer Institute of Sri Lanka and to instruct the Legal Draftsman to prepare a draft bill in line with the proposed objectives.
it has become essential to introduce appropriate revisions to the Drug Dependent Persons (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act No 54 of 2007 so that a proper formal mechanism can be maintained in treatment and rehabilitation.
Accordingly, considering a resolution forwarded by the Minister of Public Security and Parliamentary Affairs, the Cabinet of Ministers decided to grant the policy approval to revise the Drug Dependent Persons (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act No 54 of 2007 and direct the Legal Draftsman to formulate a draft bill including the relevant amendments.
The Cabinet of Ministers approved the resolution furnished by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Lands and Irrigation to appoint Mrs. O. T. M. I. Thilakarathne, the senior most officer in Sri Lanka Surveyors’ Service serving as an Additional Surveyor General of that Department to the Post of Surveyor General that will be vacant from 20.08.2026.
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