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Festivals keep potential migrant workers home
Propped up mainly by the festive season, the number of Nepali migrant workers leaving the country for foreign employment has decreased by 30.41 percent during mid-September to mid-October as compared to the same period last...
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‘Safe house’ for migrant women workers soon
The government plan to establish a 'safe house' in the country for the foreign-returned migrant workers is yet to come to...
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Envoy for documentation of Nepali migrant workers
Nepali envoy to Saudi Arabia Hamid Ansari who is presently in Kathmandu, said it was difficult to tackle problems faced by Nepali workers due to the lack of legal documents with individual coming there for...
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26 fraud victims return home
Twenty-six Nepali migrant workers stranded in Doha were sent back to Nepal on Thursday with the help of Qatari government....
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Migrant workers’ departure rises
The number of migrant workers going abroad increased by 24.65 percent during the first 10 months of the fiscal year despite a passport shortage that has slowed down...
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Nepali migrant workers win protracted legal battle
A long legal battle has ultimately paid off about three dozen Nepali migrant workers after the High Court of Qatar gave its verdict in their favour...
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Nepali migrants exposed to heat of Arab uprising
The government’s lack of prudence has exposed lives of ill-informed Nepali migrant workers to danger as the Arab Spring rages in many...
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Departure of women migrant workers up 117.5 percent
Departure of Nepali women for overseas jobs more than doubled in the last fiscal...
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‘Age limit only for domestic workers’
Provision in offing to bar sending of female foreign job seekers through personal...
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45k migrant workers depart in first month
The first month of the fiscal year saw 45,390 Nepali migrant workers heading off to foreign labour destinations....
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Migrant workers funding teachers’ pay back home
Migrant Nepali workers in India have been reaching back to their home in Brahmatola VDC in the district to help run a...
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Exploitation, meagre wages add to migrant workers’ woes
Given the exploitation that migrant workers face from overseas employment agents, it takes at least seven months for the workers to make enough money to pay off their departure costs....
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Nepali copy of contract papers for outbound workers a must
The government has made it mandatory for foreign employment agencies to provide employment contract in Nepali (translated job agreement) to workers being sent by them to international...
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More foreign job seekers falling victim to TIA nexus
Penury pressed Mohan Lal Sapkota, 35, to leave home for foreign employment third time in his life....
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Basnet-Sunar case fallout
Having stepped in to save Durga Bahadur Sunar from death penalty in the United Arab Emirates, the government is now under moral obligation to save other Nepali migrant...
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Govt to ink labour pacts with six countries
The government is set to sign labour agreements with six emerging labour destinations— Malaysia, Kuwait, Israel, Oman, Jordon and...
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Migrant departures via 3rd countries worry govt, firms
Nepali Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Udaya Raj Pandey has urged the government to curb illegal departures via India and other...
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Clarion call to safeguard migrant workers’ rights
Representatives of National Human Rights Commissions (NHRCs) of various countries have stressed the need of a broader coordination and cooperation among the...
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International migrants’ day Not all Nepali migrant workers have all the luck
Around 40 migrant workers bound for various countries received garlands from the under-secretary of the Ministry of Labour and Employment at the Tribhuvan International Airport on...
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Govt yet to address real needs: Stakeholders
An ambitious initiative to raise the minimum salary of migrant workers in ten destination countries, including Saudi Arabia, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has...
