evidence: The government has proposed a 1,700-rupee ($US5.5) daily wage, in other words a 700-rupee increase in the current below-poverty 1,000-rupee rate. [...] In April 2021, then Sri Lanka President Gotabhaya Rajapakse announced a 1,000 rupee ($US4) daily wage via a gazette notification, in order to dissipate nationwide demands and strikes by estate workers for a higher wage. [...] Rejecting the government’s current proposal for a 1,700-rupee wage, the PA claims that estate employees are receiving higher wages compared to other wage board workers and more than others working in Sri Lanka’s agriculture sector.