The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake
Chamara Sampath Dasanayake questioned why the matter involving 513 staff had reached court and urged the authorities to meet the trade unions and resolve it without further litigation. He also raised concern that the Employees’ Trust Fund had halted housing loans of up to Rs. 2 million against members’ balances, saying plantation workers depended on this facility for housing repairs, and asked why the new Chairman and Board had stopped it islandwide.
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Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Why go to court if there is no issue? Don’t dodge. Meet the unions and resolve this instead of forcing litigation. This affects 513 staff. Also, the ETF used to allow members to obtain housing loans of Rs. 2 million against their balances; the new Chairman and Board have stopped that. Our plantation workers rely on this to repair rooms, etc. Why has this been halted nationwide, not only in Badulla?
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Cite as: The Hon. Chamara Sampath Dasanayake. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 25 September 2025. No. 1759483897051145. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/20075