SriLanka, Nov. 8 -- The Government has created an environment in which workers can seek solutions to salary disputes, employment rights and pension-related concerns without having to resort to prolonged trade union struggles, MP Chandana Suriyarachchi said.

Addressing the National Trade Union Conference in Colombo yesterday (7), he said the National People's Power (NPP) Government, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, had taken steps to address long-standing concerns of public sector employees and pensioners.

He said that under previous administrations, workers had sometimes been compelled to struggle for years, or even decades, to resolve employment-related grievances. However, he claimed that the present Government was addressin...