Foreign
Employment
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The informations in relation
to the foreign employment is presented in this section. The
data for the analysis was mainly collected fro the Sri Lanka
Bureau of Foreign Employment.
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| Table
- 5.1 Departures for Foreign Employment by Important Countries
and by Sex (2002-2006) |
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| Source : SLBFE *provisional |
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| Shown
in the table 5.1 for the years 2002, through 2006 is the additional
foreign employment for two groups; male and female in each
year. Several features stand out in the data shown there.
First, female departures for foreign employment are higher
than male over the year; indicating that housemaid as occupation
is still dominating all other occupations for migrant workers
in the foreign labour market. Second features is that, Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, UAE and Lebanon are important countries in
provide large employment opportunities for Sri Lankan female
while Saudi Arabia, Qatar and UAE are important in terms of
male employment. Third, foreign employment in the year 2006
has declined with compared to the previous year.
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| Table
- 5.2 Complains Received by Nature ( 2002- 2006 ) |
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| Source : SLBFE *provisional |
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As
shown in the table 5.2 the reason for the highest number of
complains was reported as lack of communication followed by
complains of non payment of agreed wages and complains of
physical and sexual harassment. Further, the data shows that
the total number of complains is increasing rapidly over the
years.
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| Table
- 5.3 - Privet Remittances FDI GDP & Export (2000-2006)
( Rs. Million) |
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| Source : SLBFE |
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The
table 5.3 indicates that Remittance is very important to the
Sri Lankan economy. Therefore strategies should be implemented
in such a way that remittances are enhanced.
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| Figure
- 5.1 - Remittances & Export (2000-2006) |
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Foreign
employment industry continues its rank as the second largest
earner of foreign exchange in the Sri Lankan economy. |
| Source : SLBFE |
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