SriLanka, Nov. 8 -- The Government is preparing legislation to abolish the manpower employment system, under which workers are recruited through intermediaries that receive payments for labour supplied directly to organisations, Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development Wasantha Samarasinghe said yesterday (7).

Addressing the National Trade Union Conference in Colombo, the Minister said the proposed legislation would strengthen the long-standing trade union campaign to secure permanent employment and protect the rights of manpower workers.

He said the Government rejected a system in which agencies profited from workers' labour while the workers themselves remained without the security and benefits of permane...