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A courtesy meeting between Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe, Minister of Trade of Sri Lanka and Mr. Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director General of International Labour Organization

Published: 16 October 2025
Last Updated: 17 October 2025

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    Hon. Wasantha Samarasinghe, Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Co-operative Development paid a courtesy call on Mr. Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director General of the International Labour Organization on 16 October 2025 at the ILO Office, on the margins of the Fifth Review of the Trade Policies and Practices of Sri Lanka, which is being held from 15-17 October 2025 in Geneva, Switzerland. 

    Statement by Hon. Anil Jayantha Fernando, Minister of Labour, at the ASPAG Ministerial Meeting

    Published: 16 June 2025
    Last Updated: 16 June 2025

    ASPAG Ministerial Meeting, 113th International Labour Conference, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland. 11 June 2025. Photo Violaine Martin / ILO

     

    Minister of Labour Anil Jayantha Fernandodelivered a statement at the ASPAG (Asia-Pacific Group) Ministerial Meeting, convened by Japan as the coordinator on 11 June 2025 on the sidelines of the 113th International Labour Conference (ILC) and highlighted the Government's focus on improving compliance, fostering decent working conditions, promoting access to information, making the labour market more inclusive and responsive to the evolving needs of both workers and employers and investing in digital solutions to enhance labour inspection, complaints management and social security systems.

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    Labour Minister Hon. Anil Jayantha Fernando Pays Courtesy Call on ILO Director-General

    Published: 16 June 2025
    Last Updated: 16 June 2025

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      Hon. Anil Jayantha Fernando, Minister of Labour paid a courtesy call on Mr. Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General, International Labour Organization (#ILO) on 10 June 2025.
      During the meeting, updates on the legal measures and actions taken by the government to reform the labour laws and matters related to technical assistance, human resource development, capacity building and internship programmes were discussed.

      Statement by Hon. Anil Jayantha Fernando, Minister of Labour at the 113th Session of the international Labour Conference, 10 June 2025

      Published: 11 June 2025
      Last Updated: 11 June 2025

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        Hon. Anil Jayantha Fernando, Minister of Labour, leading the tripartite delegation to the 113th Session of the International Labour Conference in Geneva, addressed the Plenary Sitting of the on 10 June 2025 and highlighted the Government's focus on promoting decent work, occupational safety and health, closing the gender pay gap, supporting the care economy, and ensuring protections for all workers, including those in the informal, precarious, and gig economies.

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        Statement by Hon. Manusha Nanayakkara, M.P. , Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment at the 112th session of International Labour Conference (ILC) from 03-14 June 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland

        Published: 14 June 2024
        Last Updated: 14 June 2024

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        Mr. President,

        Director General of the ILO,

        Trade Union and Employer Representatives,

        Excellencies,

        Delegates,

        Ladies and Gentlemen.

         

        It is a great pleasure and a privilege to address this August assembly on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka. I want to thank the ILO Director General for his timely report on the "Social Contract," which addresses the injustices, inequalities, and insecurities we face today, while reaffirming our commitment to social justice.

        Sri Lanka ready to share expertise with ILO in its efforts in preventing child labour

        Published: 04 June 2018
        Last Updated: 14 February 2024

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        'Sustained, inclusive and sustainable growth' could hardly be realized without properly addressing the inequalities in the world of work', stated the Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations Hon. Ravindra Samaraweera, today, 4th June 2018, speaking at the Plenary Meeting of the 107th Session of the International Labour Conference (ILC) being held in Geneva from 28 May - 9 June 2018.

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        Highlighting some of the significant achievements made by Sri Lanka in the field of labour, Minister Samaraweera observed that being the first country in the world to implement a National Decent Work Plan on par with ILO principles, Sri Lanka has also given priority to 'labour rights', through its inclusion in the National Human Rights Action Plan 2017-2021. He added further that Sri Lanka is in the process of introducing a 'single employment law', consolidating disparate laws that currently exist, and giving effect to the principle of non-discrimination. Sri Lanka, the Minister stressed, has also made strides in progress toward eliminating child labour, and promoting the rights of the child, offering to share its expertise in this area to support the endeavours of the ILO. 

        Inter – agency cooperation vital to ensure labour migration benefits to Developing Countries. Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative

        Published: 23 May 2018
        Last Updated: 23 May 2018

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        UN Agencies working together on cross-cutting issues such as labour and migration is vital to ensuring that benefits of such collaborative enterprises percolate to the countries in need, stated Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to United Nations in Geneva, during a meeting he had with Mr. Guy Rider, Director-General of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). He expressed the view that in each area where there is expertise available in one or more Agencies, it was important to develop ‘networking’ with the facilitation of a convener, to enable cross-fertilisation of ideas, and to improve internal cohesion across the UN system.

        Acknowledging the need to break silos, DG Rider stated that the UN has undertaken a system-wide strategic plan to reform the UN Development Pillar and that it would be aligned in support of the 2030 Agenda and SDGs.

        Ambassador Azeez, recalling Sri Lanka’s active engagement in enhancing and promoting the rights and welfare of the labour migrants in the Asia – GCC Corridor as the current Chair of the Abu-Dhabi Dialogue (ADD), stated that Sri Lanka would be hosting an intersessional meeting in Colombo in May 2018, where the issues being discussed would be in line with the ILO’s Decent Work Framework.

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        2. Sri Lanka to work towards the green initiatives of the International Labour Organisation
        3. Sri Lanka ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

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