(Lanka-e-News -27.Oct.2016, 7.00PM) The entire staff of ‘Sunday leader’ and ‘Irudhina’ newspapers belonging to Ravi Karunanayake the Finance minister and notorious Arjun Aloysius who is facing criminal charges of committing a fraud against the State , have not been paid their monthly salaries for the last two months !
The staff who are in dire straits and distress made a complaint to the Editor of Lanka e News.
The details are as follows :
This is in connection with the dire straits the entire staff of ‘Sunday Leader’ and ‘Irudhina’ have been driven into owing to the non payment of salaries…
The staff in its entirety of Leader group of companies Pvt. Ltd. which is run directly under the monitoring and financial support of the Finance minister Ravi Karunanayake and Arjun Aloysius , the son in law of ex Governor of Central bank, Arjun Mahendran have not been paid their monthly salaries for the last two months.
It is Ruwan Gallage who is the operations manager of the Institution and functions as a representative of Ravi Karunanayake, and it is Mahesh Senanayake a popular announcer and journalist who is the representative of Arjun Aloysius , and functions as the General Manager of the Institution. In addition , Akbar a close relative of Mela , wife of Ravi Karunanayake holds the post of Director.
The issues pertaining to the salaries ,non payment of EPF , ETF contributions and other employment entitlements were intimated to Finance minister Ravi Karunanayake and Arjun Aloysius the son in law of ex governor Central bank , who are the investors in the newspapers through the representatives hereinbefore mentioned .Grave charges of financial misappropriation had also been mounted against Najith De Alwis the accountant . Yet the administrators had so far taken no transparent action against him.
The employees in order to demonstrate their protests against the investors and the administrators over the gross violation of their rights , have decided not to work for the Sunday Leader and Irudhina this week and boycott work.
The staff including journalists employed at Leader group of companies Pvt. Ltd., have further decided to disseminate the news of the violation of their fundamental rights including their salary payments through the media, and also take legal measures .
-The members of staff including the Editorial Board of ‘Sunday Leader’ and ‘Irudhina’ of Leader Group of Companies (Pvt.) Ltd.-
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