EPF and ETF Benefits To Be Granted To Domestic Workers Such As Servants And Housemaids.

Laws to make it mandatory for domestic workers including housemaids to contribute towards the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), will be introduced to Parliament after drafting them,

At a meeting held to mark the opening of the newly built Polonnaruwa District Labour Office recently, Minister of Labour and Trade Union Relations and Sabaragamuwa Development, Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne said, labour laws will be introduced to make it mandatory for domestic workers such as servants including housemaids to contribute towards the Employees Provident Fund (EPF)

Cabinet approval has already been received to draft the necessary laws. Once these laws are approved, all domestic servants would be entitled to EPF and ETF benefits as well as accident compensation payments.

The Minister said a minimum salary of Rs. 10,000 is applicable to domestic servants too.

The three storied labour office situated at Kaduruwela built at a cost of Rs. 158 million, has all modern facilities to provide services to nearly 50,000 employees attached to nearly 3,000 institutions in the Polonnaruwa district.