April 2019

Ary News | 28 December 2018 Recently, after the inauguration of first Qatar visa centre in Islamabad, the ambassador highlighted that Qatar is determined to augment the number of Pakistani workers in the Gulf country by employing experts and semi-professional workers, who can support the enduring infrastructure projects. He also added that Qatar had decided […]

Kathmandu Post | 28 December 2018 The Nepal government has started working on a draft labour agreement after Japan announced it would hire thousands of workers from various countries, including Nepal. The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security has started drafting a memorandum of understanding (MoU), Secretary at the ministry Mahesh Prasad Dahal told

The Malaysian Reserve | 24 December 2019 Foreign worker agencies are bracing for a tough 2019 as the government follows through with its promise to regularise the labour market, cut out fraud and protect foreign workers’ rights. The agencies are also expecting a drop in foreign hiring as Malaysian employers relook into costs when the

The Financial Express| 24 December 2018 Unsurprisingly, Kuala Lumpur takes the lead in weeding out middlemen or agents from its pre-existing migrant workers’ recruitment policies and practices. In a propitious combination of circumstances, one may add, Malaysia measures up to the need for initiating a fair recruitment deal with the underpinnings of a productive, secure

Kathmandu Post | 23 December 2018 The number of permits issued to Nepalis aspiring to work in various countries has gone down in the past few months. In the first four months of the current fiscal year, the Department of Foreign Employment issued a total of 147,297 work permits—under the recruiting agency and individual categories—for