Leave of all railway workers cancelled for tomorrow with immediate effect
Posted on March 14th, 2023
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
All leaves of all Railways Department workers designated as Essential Public Service will be cancelled with immediate effect, the Transport Ministry said.
Officials said that the Railways Department had been Gazetted as Essential Service” following an Extra Ordinary Notification (2321/07) issued on February 23 by the President.
Accordingly, the Railways General Manager W.A.D.S. Gunasinghe has taken steps to cancel the leave of all the staff of the Sri Lanka Railways, which has been declared an essential public service in terms of Section 2 of the Essential Public Services Act No. 61 of 1979, with immediate effect from March 14, 2023.
According to the announcement, the General Manager has informed all the heads of the Departments to demand explanation from all workers who do not report to work tomorrow (15) and submit a report in order to maintain the railway service continuously and efficiently. (Chaturanga Pradeep Samarawickrama)