Sri Lanka mulls designating teaching an essential service
COLOMBO – Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe has said steps will be taken to designate teaching as an essential service to ensure the education of children.
The President’s Media Division (PMD) quoted him as emphasizing the “importance of teachers being present in schools during morning hours to ensure the education of children,” during a discussion with the chief prelate of the Asgiri Chapter Warakagoda Sri Gnanarathana Nayaka Thera in Kandy on Thursday (27). He had also warned that if teachers fail to do so, depriving students of their education, steps will be taken to designate teaching as an essential service.
Declaring a service an ‘essential service’ seeks to ensure that these services aren’t interrupted, usually by strike action.
Members of the teacher-principal trade unions across the island who reported sick Wednesday (26) and demonstrated outside the Fort Railway Station demanding resolutions for several of their demands, continued with the trade union action on Thursday protesting against the police who fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse the crowds on Wednesday.
The strike disrupted educational activities at schools across the country.
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