Contempt of court law: Sri Lanka Government wages war against people’s freedom of expression
By Sanjaya Jayasekera As part of a larger onslaught on democratic rights, Sri Lanka government of President Ranil Wickremasinghe is waging a war against free expression of the masses, specifically targeting print and digital media and online platforms. The latest of this attack is prepared by another piece of proposed legislation
No right to equal pay for equal work, Germany’s highest labour court rules
By Justus Leicht A ruling by Germany’s Federal Labour Court (BAG), at the end of May explicitly confirmed that the principle of “equal pay for equal work” does not have to apply to temporary agency workers. The complaint of a temporary worker was thereby rejected after a third hearing, despite an earlier
What is Wickremasinge’s Social Market Economy ?
What is Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremasinghe proposing when he refers to a Socal Market Economy (SME) ? UNP Government in 2015 proposed the same. Redeem Sally wrote an article published in DailyFT on 07 October 2015. We republish it here. SME is another pseudo-name for Neoliberal Market Economy,
Sri Lankan government tables sham amendments to draconian anti-terrorism law
By Sanjaya Jayasekera Early last month, the Sri Lankan Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris tabled an amendment bill in parliament to the notorious Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) with debate to begin on March 8. Two petitions filed in the Supreme Court challenging the unconstitutionality of the amendments are yet
Customs Notification/Order Under Section 10A of CO (24.06.2020)
By virtue of the powers vested in the Minister of Finance, Economic and Policy Development under Section 10A of the Customs Ordinance as amended by Act No.83 of 1988, the Minister has ordered a surcharge to be levied on the Customs duty on imports of Petrol having Octane number of