“We want to do counselling for families where mothers have gone abroad,” said Labour & Foreign Employment Minister, Athauda Seneviratne, on Monday.
Cabinet, said Seneviratne, sanctioned this move a few days ago.
The Minister was addressing a gathering organised by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), on protecting rights of migrant workers.
The problem of safeguarding Sri Lanka’s over one million, mainly female, migrant workers is a lon