An Extraordinary Gazette notification declaring postal services as an essential service is slated to be issued.
Speaking to journalists in Homagama today (08), subject Minister Bandula Gunawardena has said that he has placed his signature to issue the relevant gazette notification.
Although the Postmaster General Ruwan Sathkumara yesterday stated that the leave of all postal staff will be cancelled on November 08, 09 and 10, postal workers had commenced a strike against the government’s attempts to sell the postal department’s resources.
The United Postal Trade Unions’ Front co-convener Chinthaka Bandara had said that the government should abandon its plans to sell the Nuwara-Eliya and Kandy post offices.
