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| Sunday, 8 June 2003 |
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Complaints of harassment of migrant workers to use airport services by Don Asoka Wijewardena The Parliamentary Select Committee for Migrant Workers Welfare visited the airport duty-free complex, customs department and taxi services on a fact-finding tour in response to a number of complaints of irregularities in these places and the difficulties faced by the migrant workers returning to Sri Lanka. Minister of Employment and Labour, Mahinda Samarasinghe who heads the Select Committee said that they had received many complaints of harassment, persuasion of migrant workers to purchase liquor and household goods from the duty-free complex and selling them at exorbitant prices to clients by organised groups. The committee had also discovered loopholes in customs and lack of English knowledge of migrant workers, especially housemaids to fill various embarkation as well as disembarkation documents and communication skills. He said that the committee would take necessary measures to solve all those problems once the fact-finding mission of the Parliamentary Select Committee arrived at a decision. Chairman Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment, Susantha Fernando, pointed out that the revenue collection from migrant workers at airport premises had seen a significant increase over the past few years and added that around Rs. 10 million could be collected monthly from unregistered migrant workers. |
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