Circular issued for state sector workers on taking no-pay leave for foreign jobs
A circular making it mandatory for state sector workers to remit a certain sum of dollars to Sri Lanka monthly after travelling overseas on no pay leave was issued by the Ministry of Finance, Economic Stabilisation and National Policies.
The circular, signed by Treasury Secretary Mahinda Siriwardana, was published on August 22, 2022.
As per the circular, government employees who leave for foreign employment should send a monthly amount of foreign remittances to a non-resident foreign currency (NRFC) account under their name in a local bank during their tenure as given below.
- Primary-level employees – USD 100 per month
- Secondary-level employees – USD 200 per month
- Tertiary-level employees – USD 300 per month
- Senior-level employees – USD 500 per month
The amount to be remitted is decided on the seniority of each public sector employee.
The circular was issued to provide no pay leave for a maximum of five years for state sector workers to work overseas.
The circular by the Finance Ministry has been issued with the objective of increasing foreign exchange remittances and to increase the contribution to the economy through the country’s workforce.
This no-pay leave is granted only if another employee can be internally assigned to cover the workload of the employee who temporarily leaves the service for foreign employment.
At the same time, the heads of institutions should carry on the functions of the workplace efficiently without hiring a new employee to the position of the employee who is on no-pay leave.
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Bravo RW et al !!! It is high time this lunatic, odious practice was reviewed and adjusted or, as many have advocated, done away with altogether! Most developed countries do not have this floozy nonsense, definitely not where a govt employee’s job is kept open for 5 years when they decided to vacate and travel all over the world! Wow, looks like finally the REAL RANIL has stood up! Too bad it wasn’t 20 years ago when horrific LTTE terrorism was reigning over SL and RW was THE PM, the PM delivering performance of a back-boneless eunuch then!
Your comms are certainly improving Ranjith,
Keep it up, my dear fellow Blogger !!
Rory. This time I agree with you. It took me a long time to put some sense on to you .From now on I Hope you behave in this site without insulting people., using rude words and crude language.
Ranjith the white man’s toilet cleaner – true, thanks indeed… yes, I did learn from you and I give you credit for putting sense “on” (sic!) to me….yes, grand toilet-cleaner I learned here (again) to never trust anyone posting with merely a Sinhala sounding name as there are many anti-Sinhalese, Anti-Lankan toxic maggots masquerading here…OK now shoo, shoo, back to cleaning toilets scummie…..ha ha
I think this is a good initiative. Trust the employees who go abroad will abide by the regulations and send much needed foreign currency. Besides, these employees will send money to their respective families too. In turn, these money will be spent in SL and will contribute to local economy.
Rory. I have much more respect for this white man’s or Dubai. Doha airport toilet cleaners than you because not like you they have no shortage of food, fuel or gas like idling people like you where the government has to go around the world with a begging bowl to borrow some money to feed. Those people who do a proper job pay taxes and keep the countries economy strong unlike idling people like you. So far the country in debts because they had to borrow money to feed you. School children in South Korea had and beggars in India had a collection to help starving people like you. How low you can go Rory ? Big headed and that’s all
I think Rory was talking about YOU cleaning white man’s toilets in the WEST and not about those other toilet cleaners in Dubai or Doha, which is not WEST and so they are not “white man’s” toilets. Your basic lack of geography and racial/national spread on this plant certainly confirms your lack of education bogus, economic SL refugee. Of course your par-for-the-course atrocious English is just too hilarious that I am afraid that one of these days, it will make a corpse spring up giggling! LOL As for begging, what’s the difference toilet cleaner because when you left SL and claimed bogus refugee status, you also went shamelessly begging to the white man, asking him to let you clean his toilet uh? LOL