PRESS RELEASE

Litro Gas Lanka, Sri Lanka’s national LPG provider that generated over Rs 500 million in profits prior to 2019, seeks to clarify vague concerns raised about the salary structure of its staff, says Mr Muditha Peiris, Chairman / CEO of Litro Gas Lanka.

The Company has been severely impacted by rising global LPG prices, foreign currency fluctuations and not increasing prices of LPG in Sri Lanka in keeping with changing international rates of LPG. The once robust entity that consistently performed as a leading SOE  with growth potential, has been incurring losses recently, having passed on the cost benefit to the consumers for a considerable period of time, adds Mr. Peiris.

As a fully owned subsidiary of The Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation, Litro Gas Lanka has been a major contributor towards the Treasury coffers since inception. The Company is built on a model of efficiency and professionalism and has inculcated in its staff ethics of efficiency, effectiveness and being result oriented, factors that have played a major role in its success. 

The Company spends less than 2% of its annual turn- over on salaries for its less than 200 member staff. Many on the Litro Gas Lanka team have continued their career from Lanka Gas Co and Royal Shell Gas and have been serving for well over 20 years. The Litro Gas Lanka employees have always taken pride in their core values of delivering performance as a sustainable and tightly knit team.

“ Our team includes experts and professionals with global and local experience in their chosen field of expertise and are not paid state backed pensions or other tax free incentives or facilities available for government employees,” points out Mr Peiris.

While the salary structure of Litro Gas Lanka is governed by the Companies Act of 2007 No 07, and regulated to be on par with other state owned enterprises, it is in no way as per the incorrect and false information shared on social media, he reiterates.

Litro Gas Lanka believes that such baseless allegations have been made with the intention of causing a negative impact on the goodwill generated by the Company in the minds of the consumers. The company vehemently denies the allegations and reiterates that such deliberate acts of sabotage are aimed at causing great harm and damage to the good name and reputation Litro Gas Lanka has cultivated over the years as the country’s leading LPG provider.

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Manusha Nanayakkara, Minister of Labor and Foreign Employment, has implemented a practical program with the goal of bringing five hundred million US dollars monthly from expatriate workers into the country to solve the country’s problems.

At the same time, efforts have been made to speed up the program of dispatching workers to high-income countries such as Japan.

Air tickets were awarded yesterday (29) to five trainees for nursing jobs in Japan.

A group of 22 people have been training to leave for work in Japan since yesterday, and will leave on the 20th with eight nurses and 14 construction workers.

The Minister emphasized that the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment is sending workers to Japan for employment and that Japanese job seekers who send such workers will never have to pay intermediaries.