{"id":26901,"date":"2025-12-28T05:01:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/sri-lankas-apparel-workers-pay-rises-but-living-wage-gap-persists\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T05:01:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T05:01:41","slug":"sri-lankas-apparel-workers-pay-rises-but-living-wage-gap-persists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/sri-lankas-apparel-workers-pay-rises-but-living-wage-gap-persists\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka\u2019s apparel workers pay rises, but living wage gap persists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.fibre2fashion.com\/Newsresource\/images\/307\/shutterstock-2679633579_318886.jpg\" \/><br \/>Sri Lanka\u2019s recent apparel wage hikes have raised nominal pay, but currency depreciation has limited real gains.<br \/>\nWhile manufacturers benefit from lower dollar-denominated labour costs, workers continue to face a wide gap between minimum wages and living costs, highlighting persistent structural pressures in a sector central to the country\u2019s export economy.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fibre2fashion.com\/news\/apparel-news\/sri-lanka-s-apparel-workers-pay-rises-but-living-wage-gap-persists-307298-newsdetails.htm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka\u2019s recent apparel wage hikes have raised nominal pay, but currency depreciation has limited real gains. While manufacturers benefit from lower dollar-denominated labour costs, workers continue to face a wide gap between minimum wages and living costs, highlighting persistent structural pressures in a sector central to the country\u2019s export economy. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fashion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tezgyan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}