Sri Lanka Economic Crisis: Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe brought a decision to reduce the retirement age from 65 to 60. Sri Lanka began a fresh austerity drive under which there will be no ...

Informal employment remains a salient and persistent feature of the Sri Lanka labor market, with around 70 percent of the work force informally employed. There are generally three reasons to be ...

Himani Vithanage is a Research Assistant working on health, education, and labour policy at IPS. She received the IPS’ Saman Kelegama Memorial Research Grant for 2021. Himani holds a BA in Economics ...

Despite natural disasters, Sri Lanka is reaping the benefits of improved revenue collection and managed expenditures and, has thus recorded a primary fiscal surplus for the first time in decades.

Workers at the Cooperative Wholesale Establishment (CWE) in Sri Lanka have been holding a sit-in-strike since Monday to protest the liquidation of the company and the compulsory retirement and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Before Sri Lanka’s economy collapsed, 50-year-old Nazir would spend scorching hot days hauling carts packed ...

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s apparel manufacturing industry warned on Thursday that sweeping US tariffs will disrupt the island’s largest export sector and place thousands of jobs at risk. “The tariff level ...

The Korean government today assured that they have taken necessary measures to open up new employment opportunities for Sri Lankans in Korea and increase the number of jobs provided to Sri Lankans.

Thousands of Sri Lankans have fallen prey to job-related scams over the years, with the latest being ‘jobs’ as mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war. State Minister of Defence Pramitha Bandara ...

The globalization of job markets has meant that in a tiny, impoverished nation such as Sri Lanka, those seeking work and a better life have to go elsewhere. In Sri Lanka it isn't the men who migrate ...