Kathmandu, Jan 22 (RSS): Nepali Congress central member and former minister for labour and transport, Ramesh Lekhak, who is presently in Qatar held a meeting with Qatar’s Administrative Development, Labor and Social Affairs Minister Dr Issa Saad Al Jafali Al Nuaimi on Sunday.
During the meeting, leader Lekhak thanked the Qatar Government for providing employment opportunities for millions of Nepali workers there. He put forth his queries before the Qatari minister about the effectiveness on the bilateral labour pact reached between Nepal and Qatar when he was the Labour and Employment Minister in 2008, according to his personal secretary Janak Bhatta.
The Minister of Qatar stated that the agreement had guaranteed legal rights of Nepali workers, proving beneficial to both employers and workers/employees.
On the occasion, former Minister Lekhak drew the attention of the Qatari minister about problems facing the Nepali migrant workers there as lack of timely payment, not getting jobs and pay as per the agreement and ban on sending more than one thousand real to Nepal at once.
In response, the Qatari labour minister pledged to make necessary arrangements to address problems of Nepali workers by constituting a bilateral joint committee. He also vowed to take initiation from the personal level to address such issues.
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