{"id":4120,"date":"2018-04-18T11:44:40","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/cebeuw\/?p=4120"},"modified":"2018-04-18T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T06:14:40","slug":"sri-lanka-power-utility-engineers-delay-industrial-action-till-may-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/?p=4120","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka power utility engineers delay industrial action till May 08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT &#8211; Engineers at Sri Lanka&#8217;s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board said they were delaying industrial action till May 08, until a Buddhist holiday period was over.<\/p>\n<p>CEBEU had earlier given notice to the management of the CEB and the power ministry that they would work-to-rule from April 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a number of requests not to work-to-rule from April 20, because Vesak week starts on April 30,&#8221; CEBEU President Saumya Kumarawadu told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we start work-to-rule power outages cannot be prevented. So the Union decided yesterday to delay action till May 08.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CEBEU says the regulator had delayed approved of their latest power plan and the cancellation of a coal plant in 2015 by the President had pushed the country into a crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Even earlier plants in the CEB&#8217;s approved power plan was delayed. (Colombo\/Ma18\/2018)<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.economynext.com\/Sri_Lanka_power_utility_engineers_delay_industrial_action_till_May_08-3-10400-8.html<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<script><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECONOMYNEXT &#8211; Engineers at Sri Lanka&#8217;s state-run Ceylon Electricity Board said they were delaying industrial action till May 08, until a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4122,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4120\/revisions\/4122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cebeu.lk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}