Lankan agro workers for Israel

The Population and Immigration Authority of the State of Israel (PIBA) and the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE), have reached an arrangement for speedy recruitment of 1500 Sri Lankan agricultural workers for a six month work period in Israel during the first half of 2013.

According to an arrangement reached recently, the recruitment of the 1500 Sri Lankan agricultural workers will be carried out in Sri Lanka by the SLBFE through the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Agency Ltd. (SLFEA). The recruitment will be carried out in coordination with Israeli , without the involvement of other private recruitment agencies in Sri Lanka.

A key element in the arrangement, is the obligation of both sides to take all reasonable steps to ensure that the applicants and selected workers will not be asked to pay any payments for their recruitment above the permitted payments set in the arrangement.

The recruited workers will also receive information concerning their rights and obligations under the arrangement, including their obligation to leave Israel at the end of their six month work permit period.