23. Inquiry into complaints made by persons re-cruited for employment abroad
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Where the Commissioner receives a complaint from any person recruited for employment abroad or employed abroad—
Commissioner
“Commissioner” means the person for a time being holding the office of Commissioner of Labour and includes a person for the time being holding the office of Deputy or Assistant Commissioner of Labour;
‘that the terms and conditions imposed on an employer by the contract of employment in relation to him have not been observed by that employer ; and
that the licensee who recruited him for employment abroad has, in breach of the agreement entered into by the licensee with the Commissioner under section 6 (1) (a), failed to take such steps as are reasonably possible to ensure that those terms and conditions are observed by the employer, the Commissioner may, after such inquiry as he may deem necessary, direct the licensee to pay that person such sum of money as may be determined by the Commissioner to be sufficient to defray the expenses, including cost of passage to Sri Lanka, incurred by that person as a result of the breach of those conditions by the employer.
The Commissioner shall at any inquiry held under subsection (1) give the parties affected an opportunity to be heard.