Japan’s civil aviation sector opens to Lankan workers from March

Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment, Manusha Nanayakkara said that Sri Lankans will be able to work in the Japanese civil aviation sector from March next year.Nanayakkara told Parliament that Sri Lankans are already going to Japan to work as caregivers, and in manufacturing and food processing.

The country also sent 5,414 people for jobs in Korea, and the focus will be on sending more people to work in the Korean shipbuilding industry, he said.

536 Sri Lankans have been sent as caregivers to Israel, he added Out of the Sri Lankans that have left for foreign employment in 2023, over 56 percent are men, Nanayakkara said.

He added that they are actively discouraging women from leaving the country to work as domestic workers.In October 2023, Sri Lanka’s official remittances surged to 517.4 million U.S. dollars, a 46 percent increase from 2022.