Browsing by Subject "Labour"

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    • Presidential Candidates Key Points on Labour 

      Team, Manthri (Manthri.lk, 2019-11-13)
      This infographic shows the key points on labour from the manifestos released by the three presidential candidates in the 2019 presidential election.

    • Sri Lanka: Domestic Workers and Employers Survey 

      Decent Work for Domestic Workers: Report; No. 2
      Abeysinghe, Subhashini; Kumarage, Aloka       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2015-03)
      VR conducted a survey among domestic workers and employers of domestic workers in Sri Lanka during the period of March to June 2014 and analysed the findings in terms of domestic workers' working standards, wages and ...

    • Sri Lanka’s tea industry – too long in adolescence, it’s time to grow up 

      VR Insights; February 2016
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2016-02-26)
      Tea sector wage negotiations periodically go into deadlock. There are political reasons for this situation, but also an overarching economic one: global tea prices have declined – as it periodically happens – and the ...

    • The Tea Industry: A New Sustainability Approach 

      VR Insights; June 2013
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-06-09)
      What do unions do? In a landmark title by this name (1984), Harvard University economists Richard Freeman and James Medoff demonstrated that labour unions have two faces. One is confrontational and the other is cooperative. ...

    • A Win-Win Solution for Management and Workers in the Tea industry 

      VR Insights;
      Econ Team       (Colombo: Verité Research, 2013-03)
      Pareto Efficiency is an important concept in economics. It occurs when all win-win opportunities have been fully pursued. In societies as well as in organisations there are numerous opportunities to make changes that leave ...