09/30/2011
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BBC
The BBC's Saroj Pathirana looks at the plight of Sri Lankan migrant workers who say they are abused in Saudi Arabia.
06/03/2011
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Associated Press
Sri Lanka's powerful Buddhist clergy demonstrated Friday urging the president to restore rights of workers and students days after a violent police crackdown on a labour protest killed one factory worker.
03/14/2011
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Colombo Page
Five trade unions of the Inland Revenue Department of Sri Lanka have decided to report sick and strike work on five demands.
03/13/2011
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Colombo Page
Sri Lanka : Sri Lankan university lecturers to agitate demanding promised salary hike (Sri Lanka - latest news stories and top headlines)
12/09/2010
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IRIN
COLOMBO, 9 December 2010 (IRIN) - After a string of abuse cases against Sri Lankan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, the International Labour Organization (ILO) is working with the government of Sri Lanka to promote skilled labour migration - as opposed to domestic work - as a way to protect those who choose to leave the country to make a living.
09/01/2010
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Hindustan Times
India on Wednesday rejected reports that it was bringing its own nationals to Sri Lanka to carry out reconstruction work in the war-ravaged northern districts. Foreign secretary Nirupama Rao, on a three-day visit to the Island nation, categorically denied that there was any move to bring in Indian labour for reconstruction work here. Construction of houses and other reconstruction work that India was helping Sri Lanka with was being done with local help, Rao reiterated.
09/01/2010
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Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — A Saudi official has denied a Sri Lankan maid's allegations that the couple she worked for in the Arab kingdom hammered nails and needles into her body.
07/07/2010
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Asia Times, Inter Press Service
COLOMBO - When garment factory workers outside Colombo once organized a noisy protest over a bonus issue, police threatened to file charges - of hostage-taking - against them. The Sri Lankan authorities zeroed in on this because the workers' senior managers were inside the factory premises during the protest.
07/05/2010
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Japan Times
Relieving pressure on overcrowded national prisons by employing convicts as laborers at Chinese-run projects in the developing world is a novel strategy China has adopted — an approach that is certain to create new backlashes against Chinese businesses overseas, besides highlighting the country's egregious human-rights record.