Job Restructuring and Socio-Economic Security in Sri Lanka

N.N.J Nawaratne

doi:10.4038/sljhrm.v4i1.5614

Abstract

After the economic liberalization in Sri Lanka, employment practices in the manufacturing industry and tertiary sector have changed gradually from traditional contractual arrangement and other terms and conditions of the work to nonstandard work arrangement or atypical employment practices. First part of this article distinguishes different types of atypical employment patterns and explains key features of the new type of employment relationship in Sri Lanka. Second part of the article, describes the major changes in the job security and its impact on socio-economic security in Sri Lanka by using the data from 600 Manufacturing Enterprises of the Enterprises Labor Flexibility & Security Survey (ELFS) for 2005-2006 conducted in manufacturing industry by the Social Policy Analysis and Research Center (SPARC) of the University of Colombo. DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljhrm.v4i1.5614">http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/sljhrm.v4i1.5614</a> Sri Lankan Journal of Human Resource Management Vol.4(1) 2013 pp.17-32

Highlights

Each person needs a job; if not our personal well-being would be greatly affected
During the first 4 years Sri Lankan economy grew by an impressive 6 percent per annum, compared to only
As found in the LFS survey, Sri Lankan manufacturers highly focus on atypical workers in skilled and unskilled occupational categories rather than other categories like managerial, executive and administrative, professional and technical, clerical, sales and services, and supervisory and foremen

Summary

Introduction

Each person needs a job; if not our personal well-being would be greatly affected. In the classical model, employees staying with an employer only if the employer offered job security to the employee and otherwise moving to the other employment, especially where they have the income security from the job. Second part of the article describes the major changes in the job security and its impact on socio-economic security in Sri. Lanka by using the data from Enterprises Labor Flexibility Survey (ELFS) for 2005 - 2006 conducted in manufacturing industry. After the economic liberalization in Sri Lanka, employment practices in the manufacturing industry and tertiary sector (wholesaling, retailing, finance, banking and insurance, transportation, education, communications, and other services) have changed gradually from traditional contractual arrangements and other terms and conditions of the work to nonstandard work arrangements or atypical employment practices. This has been evident since 1977, when the Sri Lanka introduced liberalized economic policies with the expectation of accelerating. Notes: From 1994 to 2002 excluding Northern and Eastern provinces excluding Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi districts excluding Northern Province

A Literature Review

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