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EPF for casual employees

by Jayantha Sri Nissanka and Bharatha Malawaraarachchi

Some 80,000 casual employees in the state sector are to get Provident Fund benefits according to new amendments made to the existing laws in parliament yesterday.

This is the first time in the history of the Sri Lanka Public Service that these benefits have been made available to casual employees.

Finance Minister K.N. Choksy moved amendments to the Public Service Provident Fund Ordinance yesterday saying "there exists a considerable number of employees in the public sector who are not eligible for any social security benefit either as a pension or as a provident fund under this statute."

The Government, he said, "is desirous in principle to provide some from of social security benefit for this category".

The amendments provide that in respect of person holding a non-pensionable post in the public service and entitled to a daily wage, the total of the daily paid during the month, or the monthly allowance, will be deemed to be the monthly salary to calculate the contribution by employee and employer for the fund.

This, the Minister said, is also in keeping with the Government's policy to make pensions and superannuation benefits to state employees contributory in nature.

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