Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau (SLFEB) says that repatriation of Sri Lankan expatriate workers from South Korea will start next week. The media spokesman of SLFEB, Mangala Randeniya said that the chief of National Operation Center for the Prevention of COVID-19, Army Commander Shavendra Silva had granted permission for this.
Randeniya further said that some Sri Lankans who had signed agreements with the employers were waiting to go to South Korea. The Sri Lankan expatriate workers in South Korea whose job agreements are expired now must be brought to Sri Lanka to facilitate the others to go there.
Over 1,000 Sri Lankan workers whose contracts have expired are waiting for flights to return to Sri Lanka, sources say.
Twenty-three thousand Sri Lankans work in South Korea now.
