Sri Lankan maid becomes a millionaire after she paid with the pending salary of 17 years in Riyadh. She got a salary of SR88,600 (Dh86,778) in back wages for the past 17 years. The amount equals 3.6 million in Sri Lankan rupees.
KG Kusumawathi, a 44-year-old had come to the Saudi Arabia at the age of 27 in the year 2000 with two toddlers, a daughter Hansika Sewwandi, then 2, and son Thushitha Madusha, who was then 4. She then started working as a maid and her sponsor paid her monthly salary of SR400 for the first eight years. Kusumawathi had SR38,600 in cash in hand when the authorities tracked her at the workplace. The balance of SR50,000 was paid by the employer.
According to Saudi regulations, the sponsor is duty bound to send maids back home on completion of their work contracts. The Justice and Foreign Employment Minister of Sri Lanka Thalatha Atukorale was thankful to the Saudi government and the island’s consulate in Jeddah for their cooperation in sending maid back home with her paid-up salary.
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