Kathmandu, June 2: The People’s Forum in collaboration with the Civic Society Campaign submitted a report related to the amendment of the Foreign Employment Act-2064 to the Minister for Labour and Employment, Suryaman Gurung, on Thursday.
Amid a programme held at the Ministry of Labour and Employment, the Forum’s executive member Som Luitel submitted the report that was prepared after a year of study and research in the concerned sector.
Forum’s executive member Luitel shared that the report was prepared on the basis of the international laws and legal provisions in the South Asian regions.
The recommendations furnished in the report include increase in the compensation amount provided to the families of those dead during the foreign employment, legal provisions to be made for the aspiring migrant workers to leave for foreign employment in zero amount, increase of the deposit amount to Rs 300,000 for the man power companies during their registration and signing two-sided labour agreement while opening a new labour destination among others.
Furthermore, for the Act to be in consistence with the changing times and at a time when around 1,500 people are leaving the country everyday on average for 110 different countries, the report recommends record keeping of the details of migrant workers in the Nepali Embassy in the receiving countries, establishment of a fund for the rescue of the migrant workers abroad, transfer of authority to the police for the investment of swindling cases related to the foreign employment and the like.
Receiving the report, Minister Gurung said that the Foreign Employment Act amendment process was in the final phase and it would be completed soon.
Stating that the suggestions included in the report were relevant and serious ones, he pledged that those suggestions would be incorporated in the amendment. RSS
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