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Child labour and Sri Lanka

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We have hit the 100 years of International Labour Organization (ILO) in 2019. But, fight against the child labours is not has coming to end. Firstly, we identify who is considered as child labour. Children, who are deprived of their childhood. They have throwaway education and their childhood for the money. Child labours are mostly engaged to work for winning poverty and starving, Lack of education facilities, Negligence and social irresponsible of ours. Sahan, J. (2015) As we are Sri Lankans we all afford free education. The government keeps trying to get out people form socio-economy struggle. However, in the current situation, we can point to seeing the children selling the incense sticks in the street sidewalks and selling bunch fruit bags in the main roads. Some of them assist with one elder person, who may be the conductor of the child and that business. We just passing them without asking anything. How many of us spend time with them? Figure1. courtesy; Ideas in Action...

Knowing the labour law; Collective Bargaining in Sri Lanka

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This shows how unity is getting strength. In a real scenario, employees are facing more practical challenges in their work span. In large scale organizations rarely concern individual labour problems. So, the labourers are together for common reason that makes employer attention and questioning and gains their needs simply call "collective bargaining". Venn, .(2009) Labour unions are formed by the employees within the workplace to safeguard employees from bourgeois society. The unions protect employee rights. The unions are performed against the proper wages, working hours, employee safety, employee benefits, harassment, favouritism and unfair dismissals. Labour unions are more powerful associations in the monopoly market such as; Petroleum co-operations, Railway unions, doctors unions, educational unions and etc. Union were formed within the government and semi-government departments in Sri Lanka. These unions are associated with the bargaining power of government empl...

Knowing the labor law ; Introduction part

In ancient times kings and emperors are not much considered economic equality. The poor people and their generation have worked for the landlords. They always treat labours like slaves. Even they don't deserve to get wages. In contrast landlords, they thought the food and only is sufficient to slaves and workers. Workers can stay in the workplace and working hours or leaves and medical conditions are not acceptable by the landlords. However the conditions, it doesn't matter to them. But, work has been done. This system of workers known as slaves Jones, (1956). In this period, mostly slaves should work until they die after their generation will work for them. In this situation, slaves who are escaped from their workplace because people cannot persist the working conditions. and they have transformed against the landlords as pirates and revolutionaries.  Especially this happened in colonial countries. For example Saint Domingue (Haiti) French revolution. Starts from 1791, S...