SLBFE to secure foreign employment to Lankans
 

by Ananda Kannangara

The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) is to secure 400,000 foreign employment opportunities to Sri Lankan workers before December this year. This is in addition to the 51,000 jobs, already secured by the Bureau during the first quarter of this year.

Speaking to the`Sunday Observer', Labour Relations and Foreign Employment Minister Athauda Seneviratne expressed concern over the continuous harassment and other hardships faced by some Lankan female workers in foreign countries and said he would send more male workers to work abroad in the future.

Latest SLBFE statistics reveal that unlike in the past there was a marked decline of Sri Lankan female workers leaving the country for foreign jobs over the first quarter of this year.

The Bureau yesterday indicated that majority Sri Lankans found jobs over the past three months in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Korea and Malaysia.