Ceylon Biscuits Limited (CBL) was awarded the Gold Award for Social Dialogue in the work place, under the Large Scale Manufacturing category, at an awards ceremony held by the Department of Labour recently. This award recognizes CBL’s extensive contribution to encouraging social dialogue in the workplace and maintaining strong and consistent employee relations. Home to one of Sri Lanka’s best loved brands “Munchee”, CBL has always aimed to place employee relations at the fore of its operations to ensure industrial harmony and, this award, awarded to CBL for the second time, recognizes these efforts.

The award ceremony was organized  at the Department of Labour under the  patronage  of Minister of Skills Development, Employment and Labour relations Dinesh Gunawardhena and the Country Representative of the International Labour Organization (ILO) to recognize  the winners of the  completion held during  the  latter part of  the year 2019.

The CBL Team receiving the award comprised of members from the Management, Trade Union and CBL Welfare Society.

Nalin B Karunaratne ,Director/Chief Executive  Officer  of Ceylon Biscuits Limited noted “This award recognizes the contribution of Ceylon Biscuits Limited in introducing and implementing policies and strategies to encourage social dialogue, collective bargaining and reaching collective agreements at the workplace at an enterprise level, to achieve greater industrial harmony. Fostering strong employee relations is a priority for CBL and we conduct many activities to engage our CBL Family, including conducting training programmes, workshops and seminars, promoting social dialogue and workplace cooperation and coordinating with trade unions and employees. These practices that promote social dialogue and collective agreements have resulted in minimizing industrial disputes”.

Upholding effective social dialogue in the work place has been pivotal to the growth of CBL’s flagship brand Munchee and its strong positioning, in both the local and international marketplace.

Photo Caption: CBL  team  headed by   Nalin B Karunaratne ,Director/Chief Executive  Officer  with  the  award .