DIALOGUE Working Paper No. 46, "Emerging trends in employee participation in Sri Lanka"

This paper is part of a series of national studies on employee participation practices in Asia undertaken within the research programme in the field of industrial relations in the region. The paper examines various forms of employee participation, including those involving trade unions (e.g. collective bargaining, tripartite social dialogue) as well as others (e.g. employee councils) which have developed in Sri Lanka as a result of statutory obligations, informal mechanisms that emerged out of HR practices, and a shared view between workers and employers on the need to cooperate.