SLTB workers to take legal action against Board 

By Umesh Moramudali- June 9, 2014 
  
Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) employees will file a petition in the Supreme Court against the SLTB Board of Directors for not crediting their Employees' Provident Fund (EPF)... ... installments to the relevant fund. General Secretary, All Ceylon Transport Workers Union (ACTWU) Sepala Liyanage, said a sum of Rs 4.5 billion had not been credited to the EPF account by the SLTB.
 
 
"From 2010 onwards, installments deducted from the monthly salaries of employees' were not credited to the EPF," he said.
Liyanage claimed that 34,274 SLTB employees have been affected and added that although a complaint has been lodged with the Commissioner General of Labour and the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) over the matter, no relief had been granted.
 
 
"HRCSL and the Commissioner General of Labour instructed the SLTB to credit the EPF money of employees. However, the SLTB did not act on their instructions. Some of our depot members started taking legal action in lower Courts," he said.
Liyanage said from 2010 SLTB employees did not receive their bi-annual statements sent by the EPF to employees. He alleged that the present Board of Directors had no genuine intention to develop the SLTB or secure the rights of the employees.
Vice Chairman, SLTB, L.A. Wimalaratne was not available for comment.