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More LTs welcomed, need for Tamil-speaking officials - Deputy Minister

by P. Rajaratnam in Nuwara Eliya

Muthu Sivalingham, Deputy Minister of Livestock and Agriculture and a senior leader of the Ceylon Workers' Congress addressing a Leaders' Meeting said it is a welcome gesture on the part of the Minister of Labour and Employment in creating additional Labour Tribunals in the country, but it is equally important in developing and improving the already existing Labour Tribunals, particularly those Tribunals in the hill country.

Some of these Tribunals badly lack Tamil officers where the applicants are predominantly plantation Tamil-speaking workers. In point of fact the NE Labour Tribunal and Hatton totally lack Tamil officers and in Nuwara Eliya fortunately there is a Tamil-speaking Labour Tribunal President though there are no Tamil officers.

Therefore the Ceylon Workers' Congress has taken up this issue earlier too with the JSC (Judicial Services Commission) and also on the floor of the parliament. Hence, we request the Minister of Labour and Employment to look in to this important question in creating additional Labour Tribunals.

The Deputy Minister also called upon the Labour Ministry to look in to other burning issues already affecting the working class and the plantation workers in particular. S. Chandran and several others also spoke.

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