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3. National minimum wage

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

(1)

The national minimum monthly wage for all workers in any industry or service shall be ten thousand rupees and the national minimum daily wage of a worker shall be four hundred rupees.

(2)

Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law, no employer in any industry or service shall pay to any worker employed by him a wage which is less than the national minimum monthly or daily wage specified in subsection (1), as the case may be.