{"id":168113,"date":"2016-09-25T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T18:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=168113"},"modified":"2016-09-25T14:46:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T09:16:54","slug":"new-customs-bill-ranil-says-government-wont-ignore-customs-trade-unions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/new-customs-bill-ranil-says-government-wont-ignore-customs-trade-unions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New Customs Bill: Ranil Says Government Won\u2019t Ignore Customs Trade Unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has assured that the government would not pass any legislation in relation to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Customs&amp;x=10&amp;y=5\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Customs<\/span><\/a> without discussing it before hand with customs officials.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151519\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ranil-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151519\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-151519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ranil--150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ranil--150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Ranil--50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151519\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He gave this assurance in Parliament\u00a0on Friday following trade union action launched by the Customs officials which commenced last week, resulting in operations getting crippled and the country losing billions of rupees in revenue.<\/p>\n<p>The Customs trade unions has resorted to the trade union action after Finance Minister had repeatedly said that he was \u2018busy\u2019 to meet them to discuss the new Customs Act, which resulted in the agitated workers launching trade union action.<\/p>\n<p>However, the All Ceylon Customs Services Union on Friday called off their trade union action after Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake had finally given them an appointment to discuss the upcoming Customs legislation. The meeting is scheduled to be held on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the trade unions said that they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/customs-workers-unhappy-with-ravi-ks-new-act-country-loses-1-billion-in-a-day\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">not happy with Karunanayake\u2019s decision to bring in a new Customs Act<\/span><\/a>, and instead called on the Government to amend the existing act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":165866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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