The Employers’ Federation of Ceylon (EFC) has launched a series of interventions to enable companies wider accessibility to HR and legal solutions, advisory services and training in a landscape of unprecedented challenges fueled by the global pandemic.
. The services which are open to both EFC members and non-members, are also geared in meeting business and workplace demands to suit the ‘new normalcy’ shaped by the COVID pandemic.
The solutions encompassing HR, Legal and Training, are customized to be delivered to employers in a virtual environment as means of mitigating the health threats the pandemic entails.
Head of Solutions (HR & Legal) and the Assistant Director General of the EFC, Sewwandi Jayatunga Wijesekera states that, with the objective of catering to specific business requirements of each client, the EFC’s Solutions Unit drafts policies for remote work/work from home arrangements and also reviews such policies which are already devised by companies.
“In this process, we also offer advice on remote work, alternative work mechanisms, work-life balance and handling crisis within crisis. In addition, we also offer advice on restructuring of work, minimizing lay-offs and maximizing productivity as well as Work/Motion Studies for reengineering of the business processes,” notes Wijesekera.