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Compensation for Saudi Air panic victim by Ananda Kannangara The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) is now looking if the Sri Lankan housemaid who died following a fall from the Saudia Air Boeing 747 flight at BIA on Thursday could be paid full compensation. Speaking to the Sunday Observer Chairman, Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) Prof. P. V. B. Karunathilaka said that the dead female worker Abdul Majeed Nazeera, a married woman from Bakinigahawela in the Badulla district had obtained the legalised approval from the SLBFE to be employed in Saudi Arabia. "Therefore as an initial step we paid Rs. 10,000 as funeral expenses to the next of kin of the dead female worker on Friday, considering the employment registration contract the worker signed with the Bureau," he said. He said according to Bureau regulations, registered workers in the event of their deaths are generally paid full compensation, after considering the time period of their employment abroad. "As this particular worker's death occurred before her departure for foreign employment, we have to consider this as a special case and to see whether we are bound to pay compensation under such circumstances," he said. "However our officials at the Air Port branch also took every possible step to have the body of the female worker discharged from the hospital and handed over to the family members," he said. |
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