17 April 2016, Qatar Living Former deputy PM and foreign minister of Nepal, UCPN (Maoist) leader Narayan Kai Shrestha has asked the government of Qatar to permit migrant workers from Nepal to enter Qatar under a free-visa and free-ticket policy. The request for free visa and air tickets for workers coming to Qatar from Nepal […]
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CALL TO ACTION: STAND FIRM! Zero Recruitment Fees for Migrant Workers & Employer Pays Model Click Here to Sign our Change.org Petition in Solidarity with Migrants in Nepal Download the Petition in Nepali In July 2015, the Government of Nepal made a historic decision in favour of the rights of Nepali migrant workers. They passed a directive obligating
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11 March 2016, My Republica Nepal’s remittance through overseas employment that has been contributing 24 percent to the GDP, has been hit hard after manpower firms put up the shutters. The problem cropped up after as many as 754 manpower companies closed down their businesses since the last four days protesting a recent police raid
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2 March 2016, My Republica Ten Nepali migrant workers have been left in the lurch in Saudi Arabia after they have been rendered illegal. Landed in Saudi Arabia 22 months ago through the Kathmandu-based Al Naseer Overseas Pvt Ltd, the migrants have been rendered illegal ever since as they lack necessary documents like identity cards
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23 February 2016, The Kathmandu Post The number of Nepali migrants leaving for jobs abroad has been increasing every year. It has nearly doubled in recent years from 294,094 in 2066 BS to 527,814 in 2070 BS. For the first time in over five years, the number of Nepali migrants receiving permits to work abroad
14 January 2016, The Kathmandu Post Has the free-visa-free-ticket policy distracted Nepali migrant workers from going abroad for jobs? Recruiting agencies may say yes, but official figures show otherwise. Data of the Department of Foreign Employment, a government body that provides frontline service to aspirant migrants, show that it received a total of 481,480 job
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29 November 2015, Kathmandu Post Nov 29, 2015- The number of Nepali migrants going to Malaysia has fallen drastically after the government made it mandatory for overseas employers to provide free tickets and visa to workers. Malaysia, the largest destination for Nepali workers, hired only 25,635 Nepali workers in the last three months, nearly 68
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14 September 2015, Times of Oman Nepal has stopped issuing labour permits to migrant workers whose air tickets and visa fees are not being paid for by their prospective employers in Oman, a senior official of the Nepal Embassy in Muscat said. Speaking to the Times of Oman, the official said the embassy of Nepal
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7 September 2015, Kathmandu Post Free-visa-free-ticket is a newly enforced provision of the Government of Nepal that came into effect from July 8 this year. It basically obligates the employers from labour receiving countries to bear cost of visa processing and air ticket to hire workers from Nepal. Until now, most migrant workers took hefty
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7 August 2015, Nepali Times Nepal and Israel have signed an agreement allowing Nepali women to work as caretakers in the Jewish state. Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE)’s Director General Bharat Raj Subedi and Israeli ambassador to Nepal Yaron Mayer signed an agreement on Friday, revoking the ban on Nepali women caretakers in Israel. Five
