Lanka's hospitality sector welcomes policy change allowing women to work night shifts

(TTGASIA) Last week, Sri Lanka lifted a longstanding 1954 regulation that prevented women from working as hotel and restaurant waitresses after 22.00, a change welcomed by the country's hospitality industry. Notably, the previous rule did not apply to other female workers in the sector.

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"It is understood that this legislation is very old and the economic opportunities have changed drastically since 1954 with the expansion of the new industries. Thus, this revision was considered following stakeholder lobbying to amend the law," said cabinet spokesman and minister Nalinda Jayatissa at the weekly post-Cabinet meeting media briefing on Monday.