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Employment Fund targetspeople living in poverty (ht 17/05/2013)
Dynamics of discrimination: Foreign labour migration provides a new avenue for the exploitation of Dalits, by Arjun Nawal Bishwakarma and Sanjay Sharma (kp 15/05/2013)
'114 agents responsible for 90 pc illegal departure of Nepali woman to Saudi Arabia' (nn 15/05/2013)
Jhapa tops in worker migration chart (ht 13/05/2013)
Work permit rules become stricter (kp 13/05/2013)
Activists seek reforms for safe migration (ht 12/05/2013)
Job shop concept being mulled to increase employment (kp 09/05/2013)
Joint efforts must to secure migrant rights (ht 06/05/2013)
`Social ills impel women migration' (ht 03/05/2013)
Information on foreign jobs low in villages (ht 02/05/2013)
Experts seek safety, health policy for workers (ht 30/04/2013)
Workers face high occupational risks (ht 28/04/2013)
Strong rescue mechanism sought for migrant workers (ht 27/04/2013)
Civil society to raise workers’ issue (ht 26/04/2013)
Migration to boom in coming months (ht 26/04/2013)
Department records 1,654 outsourcing fraud cases (ht 25/04/2013)
Workers’ migration increases by 4.76pc (ht 23/04/2013), Nepalis to foreign jobs increase by 33 pc (nn 23/04/2013)
Butwal reeling under acute shortage of skilled manpower, by Amrita Anmol (kp 21/04/2013)
Govt sets minimum wage for migrants going to Bahrain, Oman (ht 19/04/2013)
Department of Labour to issue work permit to foreigners (ht 18/04/2013)
Govt ‘apathy’ for plight of workers in Gulf, M’asia (kp 15/04/2013)
Govt provides foreign job information in villages: Department must help control fraud and trafficking: Experts (ht 11/04/2013)
Neglected priority: Youth employment, by Murari Sharma and Netra Khadka (rep 07/04/2013)
52pc of recruitment fraud cases solved (ht 04/04/2013)
‘Women migration to Gulf is human trafficking’, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 30/03/2013)
Tourism ‘accounted for 3.6pc’ of Nepal’s total employment, by Sangam Prasain (kp 29/03/2013)
Greener pastures: To understand the scale of labour flight, we need to realise that people don’t like risk, by Dhiraj Shjarma Nyaupane (kp 27/03/2013)
Migrant worker departures up 35pc (kp 27/03/2013)
Gulf-bound migrants to be paid more (ht 26/03/2013)
UN body urges South Asia, Gulf to cooperate on women migration (ht 24/03/2013)
First eight months of FY sees 35 pc more Nepali head abroad for jobs (nn 24/03/2013)
Worker migration increases (ht 22/03/2013)
Big firms employ less than 300,000 people (ht 21/03/2013)
Migration to war-torn countries for greener pastures on the rise, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 20/03/2013)
Migrant workers: Orientation not on par with standard (kp 19/03/2013)
EPS plans to hire Nepalis in construction sector (ht 17/03/2013)
Not
adding up: Educated and unemployed people complain about lack of job
opportunities while industires claim a dearth of skilled human resources, by Manjushree Adhikari (ht 17/03/2013)
Foreign employment: 6 months after notice, govt yet to punish fake agents, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 10/03/2013)
Reluctant employers put social security panel in a fix (kp 10/03/2013)
Quality jobs must for prosperity, states report (ht 09/03/2013), Jobs with high development payoffs spur prosperity: WB (nn 09/03/2013)
Govt team to study workers’ state in Iraq, Afghanistan, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 08/03/2013)
Dept suspends orientation centres (ht 08/03/2013)
Govt approves housemaid training manual (ht 07/03/2013)
Govt provides relief to kin of 2,081 migrants (ht 04/03/2013)
Govt
opens Rep of Congo for migrant workers: The latest addition takes the
number of govt permitted countries for overseas jobs to 109 (kp 03/03/2013), Govt opens Republic of Congo for migrants (ht 03/03/2013)
Opportunities and challenges: Women in workforce, by Mukesh Khanal (rep 03/03/2013)
Human trafficking in foreign employment garb, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 26/02/2013), ‘Setting legal channel can improve affairs’, interview with Ganesh Gurung (kp 26/02/2013), End modern day slavery!, by Renu Rajbhandari (kp 26/02/2013)
Overseas agencies cast doubt on govt SOP commitment (kp 20/02/2013)
Outflow of migrant workers increases (ht 20/02/2013), Nepalis to overseas job up by 14 pc (nn 20/02/2013)
NAFEA announces protest against govt’s ‘unilateral’ decisions (kp 18/02/2013)
Project provides jobs to 50,000 (kp 07/02/2013)
Foreign employment department prepares to offer online services, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 07/02/2013)
Outsourcers decry migrant workers’ salary hike: Move has decreased
labour outflow as recruiters started exploring other low cost markets (ht 05/02/2013)
Aspiring migrant workers falling into medical fraudsters’ trap, by Roshan Sedhai and Manish Gautam (kp 01/02/2013)
Outsourcers take responsible steps at last (ht 31/01/2013)
DoFE employees tormenting aspiring migrant workers, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 30/01/2013)
Outsourcing sector records rising passport forgery cases (ht 29/01/2013)
Worker migration booms in first six months (ht 27/01/2013), Migrant worker departures up 1.49pc (kp 28/01/2013)
Costly deal: Does remittance money justify the price we pay for migration, by Guneshwor Ojha (ht 27/01/2013), Remittance and poverty reduction: Complete dependence on migration as a remedy for poverty is not sustainable, by Shreeya Neupane (ht 27/01/2013)
Death
in the Gulf: Rather than taking initiatives to address migrant-labour
problems, the state mechanism has been encouraging malpractices, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 23/01/2013)
The moneymakers: Govt needs to negotiate with host countries to ensure workers’ rights (kp 22/01/2013)
Board leadership void stalls migrant welfare, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 19/01/2013)
Govt to raise salary of Qatar bound workers (ht 17/01/2013)
Govt training to employ 45,000 youths (kp 16/01/2013)
Saudi Arabia hostile for housemaids (ht 16/01/2013)
Nepal turning into 'country of the old' (nn 16/01/2013)
Women opting for jobs in Gulf won't have to pay service charges (nn 15/01/2013)
Insufficient information hits migrants (ht 13/01/2013)
Human trafficking on rise in garb of foreign jobs: Illegal networks doing business with the annual turnover of Rs 40 billion (ht 12/01/2013), Board warns women migrants not to use Indian route (ht 12/01/2013)
‘Managing informal sector a challenge’: Activists urge government to ratify ILO Convention177 (ht 12/01/2013)
834 Nepalis died working abroad in 2012 (nn 12/01/2013)
Migrant workers' wage hike: Govt yet to address real needs: Stakeholders, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 11/01/2013)
Outsourcers to establish welfare fund (ht 11/01/2013)
South Korea to hire 46,000 EPS workers (ht 10/01/2013)
Challenges before South Asian migrant workers: Encourage formal process, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht 09/01/2013)
Govt mulls lifting Iraq, Afghanistan work ban, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 03/01/2013)
Govt to form new office for individual migrant workers, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 30/12/2012)
340 women returned from border in a year, by Parbat Portel (kp 30/12/2012)
Going underground: Govt should work to ensure migrant rights rather than control movement (kp 28/12/2012), Living off remittances: Exporting migrant labour is not a permanent solution so jobs must be created at home, by Rishi Adhikari (kp 28/12/2012)
TIA helpdesk itself waits for help: Migrant workers struggling to fill out departure forms, by Samik Kharel (kp 24/12/2012)
Worker migration booms (ht 23/12/2012)
Overhaul migration: Piecemeal solutions are not going to resolve the problems with migration (kp 20/12/2012)
Fraud by outsourcers still a challenge to safe migration (ht 20/12/2012)
Returnee migrants seek financial support (ht 20/12/2012)
Not all Nepali migrant workers have all the luck, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 19/12/2012)
Migration imperative: Labourers are consistently deceived by recruitment agencies as the government sits idle, by Norma Kang Muico (kp 18/12/2012)
Reap the dividend: Nepal needs to prepare itself to reap the benefits of a falling dependency ratio, by Dhiraj Sharma Nyaupane (kp 17/12/2012)
Ministries zeroing in on 86 agents, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 16/12/2012)
Worker migration at half a million in 11 months: About 500,111 Nepali migrants took up foreign jobs in the review period (ht 15/12/2012)
Social security scheme: Govt urged to protect all labourers (kp 14/12/2012)
Women on the move: Female migrant workers are helping to improve the living standard of their families, by Renu Rajbhandari and Namita Nepal (kp 13/12/2012)
DoFE arrests illegal agents (ht 12/12/2012)
Mind the gap: As
Nepal's population pyramid experiences a youth bulge, many young adults
will simply have no jobs when they enter the labour market, by Ramesh Kumar (nt 07/12/2012)
1st job fair for disabled sew new opportunties, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 06/12/2012)
Nepali workers in Malaysia to receive pay raise in Jan, by Ram Chandra Giri (kp 06/12/2012)
Outflow of migrant workers on the rise (ht 02/12/2012)
Three caught for forging documents (ht 01/12/2012)
‘Recruitment agencies must prioritise protection of migrants’ (ht 01/12/2012)
Int’l conference on migrant workers begins today (kp 27/11/2012), Clarion call to safeguard migrant workers’ rights (kp 27/11/2012), Kathmandu Resolution on migrant workers (kp 28/11/2012), Rights and prejudice: Conference on protecting the rights of migrant workers failed to deliver (kp 30/11/2012)
One-fourth migrants rejoin foreign jobs (ht 27/11/2012)
Girl power(less)? Gender bias at work, by Sumesh Shiwakoty (rep 27/11/2012)
Maid in Arabia: The age ban on women migrants is not only hurting women but also Nepal’s GDP, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 27/11/2012)
Consultation on streamlining labour migration concludes (ht 25/11/2012)
Worker migration drops in festive season: Malaysia displaces Qatar to become top worker hiring destination (ht 23/11/2012)
High level consultation on streamlining labour migration concludes (nn 23/11/2012)
Lift the ban: The restriction on women seeking foreign employment is not working (kp 21/11/2012)
S Arabia to reduce foreign workers: The move will hit Nepali migrant workers hard as it is the third most preferred destination (ht 20/11/2012)
South Korea wants 6,000 Nepalis in EPS roster to re-register (nn 20/11/2012)
Women’s
migration booms despite age bar: About 6,184 Nepali women migrants
joined foreign jobs in first three months of current fiscal (ht 19/11/2012)
Lost generation: Youth and unemployment, by Murari Sharma (rep 18/11/2012)
Report from the field: Jobless youths are wandering around looking for work while farms suffer from labour shortage, by Ramesh Deshar (kp 14/11/2012)
NAFEA urges govt to introduce standard operating procedure, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 13/11/2012)
Fraud in outsourcing sector increases (ht 13/11/2012)
Stemming the tide: Curbing labor migration, by Stuti Basnyet (rep 11/11/2012)
Migrant departures via 3rd countries worry govt, firms, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 09/11/2012)
Govt vows fair play as 59 companies eye licences (kp 07/11/2012)
The chill wind of overseas employment, by Karishma Wasti (kp 06/11/2012)
Whither state ownership?, by Sanjay Sharma (kp 06/11/2012)
Performance based incentive in foreign employment soon (ht 06/11/2012)
Drive to legalise: Scheme to provide documents to migrant workers will help assert rights (kp 06/10/2012)
Govt to ink labour pacts with six countries, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 05/11/2012)
Number of Nepalis flying overseas for jobs down by 10 pc (nn 05/11/2012)
Govt fixes wage for UAE bound workers (ht 05/11/2012)
Unfair levy gets poor migrant workers poorer, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 02/11/2012)
Migrant worker departures up 19pc in Q1 (kp 02/11/2012), Workers migration witnesses a boom: About 49,198 workers joined foreign jobs in mid-October (ht 02/11/2012)
Legalisation scheme needs to be liberal: Illegal migrant workers, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 01/11/2012)
Migrants spending about Rs 59.93 billion for jobs: Processing costs 16 pc of income, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 31/10/2012), Shocking fees (ht 01/11/2012)
Agency
agreement to be implemented: The agency agreement would reduce chances
of fraud besides preventing women workers from being put in danger, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 29/10/2012)
Foreign Employment Company: ‘Transparency must before registering new companies’, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 28/10/2012)
Millions swindled from Nepali youth, by Mahesh Acharya (kp 22/10/2012)
Work permit to workers going Afghanistan for second time (kp 20/10/2012)
EIC to offer online job registration (ht 19/10/2012)
‘Social security must for migrant workers’ (ht 19/10/2012)
Task force presents report on foreign employment (ht 11/10/2012)
‘Outsourcers need to be responsible towards workers’ (ht 11/10/2012)
Country
facing serious outflow of human resources: Experts attribute brain
drain to unemployment, lower wages, inflation and changing lifestyle, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 10/10/2012)
Standard Operating Procedure to cut red tape for migrant workers, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 03/10/2012)
obs
are a cornerstone of development: WB; Government’s failure in
generating enough employment forcing people to flock to Gulf, Malaysia (ht 02/10/2012)
MoLE scraps licences of 265 manpower cos, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 29/09/2012)
"Ministry To Contain Foreign Job Fraud", interview with Som Lal Subedi (sp 28/09/2012)
‘Online system’ planned to bridge communication gap (kp 22/09/2012)
Outsourcers oppose reform plan (ht 22/09/2012)
Worker migration sees a drop Malaysia becomes top hiring destination (ht 20/09/2012)
Create job opportunities, engineers plead with govt (kp 18/09/2012)
Grief is for the rich: Hundreds
of Nepalis are migrating abroad every day in search of work, but poor
and uneducated, they remain painfully unaware of the harsh conditions
that foreign lands can present, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 15/09/2012)
Worries as more migrant workers leaving via India, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 12/09/2012)
Migrant workers denied gratuity and leave pay (kp 10/09/2012)
Migrant injuries, fatalities bring home Rs 200m in compensation, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 08/09/2012)
Immigration dept halts ‘visit visa’ travel to Gulf (kp 05/09/2012)
More foreign job seekers falling victim to TIA nexus, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 02/09/2012)
Nepali copy of contract papers for outbound workers a must (kp 01/09/2012)
Exploitation, meagre wages add to migrant workers’ woes Disparity between wage and departure costs major factor, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 30/08/2012)
Contracts in Nepali must for migrants: New provision to be implemented at TIA from Friday (ht 30/08/2012)
Nepal to take part in ‘Green Jobs’ (ht 29/08/2012)
Foreign employment: Govt cracks down on ‘unholy nexus’ at TIA (kp 25/08/2012)
Tighter controls over overseas jobs on cards, by Lekhanath Pandey (ht 25/08/2012)
45k migrant workers depart in first month (kp 24/08/2012), Foreign job-seekers decrease: Women migrants’ number plunge (ht 24/08/2012)
Managing migrants: To stop unscrupulous manpower companies, Nepal should form new body to handle all migration-related activity, by Rishi Adhikari (kp 19/08/2012)
Agents help women get foreign jobs: Outsourcers reluctant to take responsibility of housemaids (ht 18/08/2012)
Failure to utilise welfare funds adds to migrant workers’ woes, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 17/08/2012)
Govt devising measures to curb anomalies in foreign employment, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 16/08/2012)
Let women work in Gulf, HRW tells govt (kp 15/08/2012), Ban on young women migrants concerns HRW (ht 15/08/2012), Rights curtailed: A blanket ban on women to work in the Gulf is not a solution to their exploitation (kp 16/08/2012)
Call to create jobs at home for growth (ht 14/08/2012)
Dept fails to identify new job markets (ht 10/08/2012)
Age bar set for women going to Gulf for work (ht 09/08/2012), ‘Age
limit only for domestic workers’: Provision in offing to bar sending of
female foreign job seekers through personal contacts (kp 10/08/2012), Age bar on migrant maids draws rights flak (ht 10/08/2012)
Higher commission pushes up service charge for Malaysia-bound workers, by Ram Chandra Giri (kp 07/08/2012)
Jhapa tops worker migration list, shows data (ht 06/08/2012)
Youth self employment programme in all 75 districts (nn 05/08/2012)
One third migrant deaths caused by misreporting (kp 04/08/2012)
Malaysia-bound migrant workers ‘paying high fees’, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 03/08/2012)
Migrant labour: Leaving behind economic lethargy?, by Ajita Singh (ht 02/08/2012)
Promises to keep: Plight of women migrants (rep 01/08/2012)
Job seekers let their mouse do the walking, by Chandiraj Dahal (kp 26/07/2012)
Worker migration doubles in last five years (ht 23/07/2012)
Foreign employment: New passport stickers helping curb forgery, by Mahesh Acharya (kp 19/07/2012)
Qatar is top hirer of Nepali migrant workers (kp 18/07/2012)
Of nepalis, afghan dreams & the ban in place, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 17/07/2012)
Nearly 4,00,000 Nepali youths abroad looking for better employment opportunities (nn 17/07/2012)
Govt registers 54,442 jobless youths, by Yadav Joshi (ht 16/07/2012)
Tackling joblessness, by Rebanta Bahadur K.C. (rep 16/07/2012)
Outsourcing agencies swindle Rs 1bn (ht 13/07/2012)
Focus on industrial climate: Agree on better employer-labour relations in the country (ht 12/07/2012)
Amendment to Labour Act sought (kp 10/07/2012)
Govt plans to expand scope of Employment Information Centres (kp 07/07/2012)
Govt exploring potentialdomestic job sectors (ht 07/07/2012)
Chinese ventures generate more employment (ht 07/07/2012)
Govt fails to generate jobs for rural poor Progress in decent work for women migrants, controlling fraud, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 03/07/2012)
Diplomacy for migrant worker, by Surya Nath Mishra (kp 01/07/2012)
Vocational training triples earnings: Survey (rep 30/06/2012)
Demand for workers strong in Gulf: Study (kp 29/06/2012)
Understanding unemployment: Labor market reforms, by Shaleen Khanal (rep 27/06/2012)
About half a million leave this fiscal (kp 24/06/2012), Worker migration sets new record (ht 25/06/2012), Number of Nepalis going for overseas job increases by 13 pc (nn 25/06/2012)
Employment fund creates 44,000 jobs in four years (ht 24/06/2012)
Nepali workers suffer due to cultural gaps: Outsourcing agents to blame for workers’ woes in Gulf (ht 24/06/2012)
Toll-free service for migrant workers: Expected to be crucial in addressing their grievances (ht 22/06/2012)
Saved by the booth, by Manisha Neupane (kp 16/06/2012)
Govt gearing up to sign labour pacts with four more countries (kp 15/06/2012)
Overseas jobs beckon four lakhs in 10 months of this fiscal, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 12/06/2012)
Number of outbound workers up (kp 21/05/2012)
Jobs galore for far west workers as workforce scarcity hits east, by Amar Khadka (rep 18/05/22)
Work on it: Employment Guarantee Act, by Chandan Sapkota (rep 16/05/2012)
S Arabia topples Qatar as top hiring destination (ht 16/05/2012)
Changes at DoFE relieve foreign job seekers, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 13/05/2012)
Govt to fix minimum pay for migrant workers (kp 11/05/2012)
FEPB provides relief to affected families (ht 10/05/2012)
Kathmandu generates highest jobs, WB report shows (ht 09/05/2012)
Labour shortage hits small businesses (ht 27/04/2012)
Educated, but unskilled: New Nepal needs to have a consciously skill-centric focus on creating and sustaining jobs, by Ashutosh Twari (nt 27/04/2012)
Youth leaders unite to generate employment (ht 26/04/2012)
Undermanned DoFE gets 27 more staffers (kp 25/04/2012)
Migrant workers’ departure rises 18.27pc, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 24/04/2012)
DoFE developing software to guard gullible workers, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 20/04/2012)
Promoting The Merit System, by Uttam Maharjan (rn 19/04/2012)
New job portal launched (kp 18/04/2012)
Migrant workers pay more for joining jobs in Israel (ht 16/04/2012)
Bhattarai govt injecting energy into foreign employment sector, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 10/04/2012)
Migration bleeding country, say experts (ht 10/04/2012)
Job creation biggest challenge for country: FNCCI (rep 07/04/2012)
Tourism created 3.3 percent of all jobs in Nepal in 2011, by Sangam Prasain (kp 07/04/20112)
Treat them with respect, by Shyam K.C. (rn 03/04/2012)
Labor shortage hits tea estates, by Raju Adhikari (rep 01/04/2012)
Fraudsters taking migrant workers for a ride as DoFE undermanned, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 29/03/2012)
Govt registers 36,896 jobless in three yearsPrime Minister’s initiative fails to attract unemployed youth (ht 24/03/2012)
Womanpower: Migration should be a choice, not a compulsion, by Rubeena Mahato (nt 23/03/2012)
AI launches drive to highlight migrant workers’ plight (kp 22/03/2012)
Agents cheating foreign job seekers: Govt to register returning migrant workers (ht 22/03/2012)
Nepalis now looking beyond Mid-east and Malaysia (kp 22/03/2012)
Young and restless, by Pragya Koirala (rep 17/03/2012)
Handful of takers for low-paying jobs in Gulf, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 17/03/2012)
Migrant workers demand Rs 686m damages (kp 05/03/2012), Risky business: Migration needs better regulation and security (kp 06/03/2012)
Govt brings foreign job policy Safe migration, productive use of remittance in focus (ht 03/03/2012)
Government plans grading of manpower companies, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 24/02/2012)
Bill to guarantee jobs on cards, by Kuvera Chalise (ht 24/02/2012)
Re-registration of migrantworkers declines (ht 24/02/2012)
Government succour for migrant workers soon, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 22/02/2012)
Foreign job market shrinks (ht 21/02/2012)
Migrant worker fund lies unused: Only urgent costs met; Plan fails to take off, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 19/02/2012)
Govt working on foreign employment policy, by Purna Chandra Bhattarai (kp 08/02/2012)
Manpower firms droppingout of JITCO scheme (kp 02/02/2012)
Evolution Of Foreign Jobs, by Bhimsen Thapaliya (rn 01/02/2012)
About half a million Nepalis join foreign jobsMocking govt’s plan to create equal number of employment, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 31/01/2012)
Repeat migrant workers account for half of worker departures (kp 27/01/2012)
Workers migration grow by 13.63pc (ht 26/01/2012)
Govt mulls job guarantee for poor, by Rupak D. Sharma (rep 20/01/2012)
UK pledges 230,000 direct jobs within 4 years (rep 20/01/2012)
NAFEA warns to not send workers to Saudi Arabia (rep 12/01/2012)
1,357 migrant workers ‘died’ in 3-and-a-half yrs: Survey finds a significant number of deaths could have been avoided, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 12/01/2012)
Foreign employment insurance raised up to Rs 685k (kp 11/01/2012)
Labour Reform Package likely to be delayed (kp 10/01/2012)
Migrant workers’ trafficking up: Cross border agents fuel illegal outflow: Envoy (ht 09/01/2012)
Foreign workers’ monitoring underway; results zilch (kp 07/01/2012)
Nepali migrants exposed to heat of Arab uprising (kp 06/01/2012)
Youth self-employment fund faces two-pronged problem (rep 05/01/2012), BFIs that misused YSESF funds to face action (rep 07/01/2012)
Labor Information Centers (rep 05/01/2012)
2.5 million Nepali youths abroad in search of jobs (nn 04/01/2012)
New career opportunities emerge in banking, by Bibek Subedi (kp 04/01/2012)
Directive to launch employment-matchmaking program ready (rep 03/01/2011)
Worker departures down 23 percent (kp 02/01/2012)
Workers’ migration drops: Only 18,784 joined foreign jobs in Mangsir (ht 29/12/2011)
No govt initiative to open Hong Kong to Nepali workers yet (rep 25/12/2011)
Online registration, system on the cards: Now, aspirants may not have to go thru agents, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 24/12/2011)
Outsourcers oppose service fee: Some agreed to send workers to Israel for Rs 75,000 (ht 22/12/2011)
Free training to be provided to aspiring domestic helpers (kp 19/12/2011)
Minister Giri vows to record migrants (ht 19/12/2011)
Empowering the invisible, by Rachana Chhetri (kp 17/12/2011)
Fraud cases in foreign employment go up (kp 17/12/2011)
Is foreign employment safe, secure for women? (rn 17/12/2011)
Call to structural reform in foreign employment dept (ht 17/12/2011
Youth Self-Employment Programme: Tall target, results unsatisfactory (kp 16/12/2011)
Nepali migrant workers struck by wanderlust, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 14/12/2011)
Nepal: Protect Nepalese migrants from ‘false promises’ of work abroad (Amnesty International 12/12/2011) [see also video], Amnesty asks Nepal govt to protect its migrant workers (nn 13/12/2011), De facto ban on women workers still in place: AI report (rep 14/12/2011), Migrant workers suffer at hands
of dishonest recruitment agents (kp 14/12/2011), AI urges govt to protect migrant workers (ht 14/12/2011)
Resource shortage hits foreign worker monitoring (ht 09/12/2011)
Manpower agencies struggle as Qatar beckons, by Om Astha Rai (rep 08/12/2011)
Youth Self-Employment Programme suspended (ht 05/12/2011), Employment scheme for youth off track: Draws flak for disbursing loans without proper monitoring and records, by Rudra Pangeni (ht 07/12/2011)
Malaysia
to topple Qatar to regain top hiring destination status: Plans to hire
over one lakh Nepalis, offer best salary among popular foreign job
markets (ht 05/12/2011)
Govt to hike migrant workers’ salary (ht 02/12/2011)
Govt to introduce unemployment insurance scheme (kp 30/11/2011)
Duped workers return; ask agent for compensation, by Roshan Sedhai (kp 27/11/2011)
Workers’ outflow posts record (ht 23/11/2011)
Permit for foreign workers: Plan implementation hits funds-crunch hurdle (kp 17/11/2011)
206 manpower agencies authorised to send Nepali workers to Israel (kp 14/11/2011), Outsourcing agents for Israel bilking job aspirants: Charging thrice the govt-prescribed fee (ht 14/11/2011)
Qatar becomes biggest employer of Nepali migrant workers, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 08/11/2011)
Govt seeks employers help to create job database (rep 05/11/2011)
Govt appoints six labour attachés after MoFA nod (kp 05/11/2011)
US firms bullish on Nepali IT sector but wary of attrition, by Samiksha Koirala (rep 05/11/2011)
NPC approves the first draft: Poor adults likely to get jobs within next fiscal (kp 03/11/2011)
Govt to allow sending female workers to Israel (kp 01/11/2011)
Rising jobless rate pushes workers migration to six times (ht 31/10/2011)
Online foreign job permit soon (ht 30/10/2011)
Govt preparing to provide jobs to unemployed youths (nn 30/10/2011)
Taskforce suggests installing CCTVs at Department of Foreign Employment, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 27/10/2011), Govt to launch on-site monitoring of foreign employment agencies, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 31/10/2011)
Workers migration booms in last decade (ht 27/10/2011)
Govt to begin job placement within this FY (kp 26/10/2011)
Nepali aspirants for overseas job increases by 40 pc (nn 26/10/2011)
Outflow of migrant workers slows: Due to festive season Ashwin witnessed drop by 29.69 per cent (ht 25/10/2011), Institutional departure of migrant workers down 12.28 percent (kp 26/10/2011)
Job guarantee plan for rural poor (kp 20/10/2011)
Redeeming foreign employment, by Bishal Bhattarai (rep 19/10/2011)
Govt fixes rates for foreign employment insurance (rep 18/10/2011)
Prime Minister vows to generate jobs: Plans to create 400,000 to 500,000 jobs and increase per capita income to $3,000 (ht 13/10/2011)
Give foreign employment its due (rep 27/09/2011)
Outflow of migrant workers slows down (ht 24/09/2011)
Individual migrant worker departures soar four-fold (kp 22/09/2011)
Ministries ignore MoLTM plea for foreign workers' info, by Ashok Thapa (rep 19/09/2011)
Of will and force: Migrants leave when survival becomes a challenge, and Nepal is no exception, by Gaurav K.C. (kp 18/09/2011)
No
changes in overseas job markets in a decade: Experts urge government to
find new job markets beyond Gulf countries and Malaysia (ht 16/09/2011)
The target paradox: The mass movement of young
Nepali workers to foreign countries is no cause for pride, given that
it only points towards the dismal state of employment generation within
the country, by Mahesh Paudyal (kp 10/09/2011)
Workshop on Kafala system (kp 06/09/2011)
Palpa industries facing shortage of workforce as youths opt for foreign employment (nn 01/09/2011)
Half
of households have one member abroad: Due to rising unemployment
coupled with militant trade unions, workers outflow increases (ht 29/08/2011)
Govt to guarantee jobs to poor, by Ashok Thapa (rep 10/08/2011)
Scourge Of Unemployment, by Narayan Upadhyay (rn 08/08/2011)
Free visa, free visa! Migrant labourers are getting a raw deal. But, apparently, it’s still better than home, by Gaurav K.C. (kp 31/07/2011)
Almost four-lakh Nepalis join foreign jobs last fiscal year (ht 28/07/2011)
High-level teams to visit labour destinations (kp 27/07/2011)
Cheated migrant workers return home empty-handed (nn 26/07/2011)
Departure of Nepalis for overseas jobs up by 20 pc (nn 26/07/2011)
Over 50,000 appear in KLT: Rising migrant outflow to increase remittance inflow this fiscal (ht 24/07/2011)
Worker departures reach all-time hight (kp 23/07/2011)
Data of returning migrant workers to be collected (kp 13/07/2011), Returning migrant workers freed of paperwork, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 14/07/2011)
'Appointment of new labor attaches will be wrong' (rep 11/07/2011)
Job agencies accused of fraud to be scrutinised (kp 11/07/2011)
Ruined aspirations, by Devendra Bhattarai (kp 09/07/2011)
Tougher work permit policy on cards, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 06/07/2011)
Organisations with foreign workers to be monitored (kp 02/07/2011)
More Nepali workers falling prey to cheating agents, by Dinesh Regmi (kp 01/07/2011)
Foreign employment bond fails second year in a row, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 26/06/2011)
Govt planning to set up job exchange service (kp 26/06/2011)
Over 2,000 line up for 120 brief jobs (ht 26/06/2011)
Work permit notice stirs employers into action, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 25/06/2011)
1,300 plus workers off to foreign lands daily (kp 20/06/2011), Migrant workers outflow hits record (ht 20/06/2011), ‘Retain unemployed youth in country (ht 20/06/2011), Nepali aspirants to overseas job up by over 18 pc (nn 20/06/2011)
Safe, productive, decent overseas job urged for migrant workers (nn 16/06/2011)
Govt set to crack down on illegal foreign workers, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 02/06/2011)
Govt introduces new regulation for employment in Qatar (nn 30/05/2011)
Migrant worker departures up 17pc (kp 24/05/2011)
Billions spend for overseas job: Over Rs 23 billion spent on pre-departure for overseas job yearly, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 23/05/2011)
New skill-testing authority to help job-seekers (ht 21/05/2011)
Migration, a win-win Approach: A multitude of actors must unite to tackle the problems of labour migration, by Gaurav K.C. (kp 20/05/2011)
Foreign jobs up 15.5pc in Chaitra (ht 01/05/2011)
Migrant worker departure up 19pc (kp 21/04/2011), Nepali workers opting for foreign employment surge by 20 pc (nn 21/04/2011)
Women cell established to address woes of women migrant workers (nn 19/04/2011)
Govt doles out Rs. 30 m to families of 306 departed migrant workers (nn 14/04/2011)
Foreign employment mired in frauds (ht 10/04/2011)
Lost to the blues (kp 30/03/2011)
Tackling Nepal's unemployment problem, by Mukhesh Khanal (rep 22/03/2011)
Travelling
blind: Without proper orientation, many migrant workers don’t even know
what to expect before they arrive in labour destinations, by Ramesh Deshar (kp 21/03/2011)
Tide ebbs by 11pc due to mideast unrest, by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 21/03/2011)
Women workers: UNIFEM report falsifies govt claim (kp 18/03/2011)
Where the jobs are, by Rebanta Bahadur K.C. (kp 17/03/2011)
IT sector can become country's best job provider: Experts (nn 06/03/2011)
108 countries opened for Nepali workers, only 35 absorbing them (nn 23/02/2011)
No room for unskilled workers in Malaysia (ht 21/02/2011)
Youth Self-employment Programme in the soup (nn 21/02/2011)
Mothers at work: Discriminatory hiring practices keep women from entering the workforce, by Saloman Rajbanshi (kp 18/02/2011)
Overseas jobs drop 7.7 pc in Magh to 28,136 (ht 17/02/2011)
Study shows 68 percent of Nepali migrant workers are female (nn 15/02/2011)
Lost love for labor, by Paras Kharel (rep 10/02/2011)
Working On Migration, by Radha Poudel (sp 04/02/2011)
Govt looking for new job markets (ht 03/02/2011)
Lax monitoring of foreign employment gives rise to fraud (ht 31/01/2011)
Workers’ migration exceeds target: Government had a target of 135,000 workers for first half (ht 27/01/2011)
Women working abroad return for good: They make use of foreign-earned money to change their fortunes for ever (ht 27/01/2011)
Youth Self-employment Programme in limbo (nn 27/01/2011)
Manpower agencies mushrooming with rise in number of foreign job aspirants (nn 25/01/2011)
Migrant workers’: Departure up by 27.25 pc , by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 22/01/2011)
Job scheme set to make a comeback: It will have to cater to 20,000 youth seeking credit for this fiscal (kp 21/01/2011)
Qatar pips Malaysia in top workers’ destination list (ht 21/01/2011)
Demand for Nepali workers shifts gear from menial to skilled ones (ht 20/01/2011)
Janakpur tops in workers’ flight (ht 14/01/2011)
One-third job migration via individual contacts (ht 02/01/2011)
Understanding the Nepali exodus, by Jeevan Raj Sharma (rep 31/12/2010)
Number of migrant workers goes up by 27.5 percent (kp 22/12/2010)
Govt asked to implement its commitment on migrant workers (nn 21/12/2010)
Migration grows over 80-fold since 1993 (ht 19/12/2010)
‘Spend more on workers’ welfare’: Officials meet to discuss UN plan on migrant workers (ht 16/12/2010), Helping workers abroad: Himal Media's roundtable discussion on the challenges and issues of migrant labour (nt 17/12/2010)
Outflow of Nepali migrant workers up by 34 pc (nn 06/12/2010)
Nepali
workers in demand: Current trend reveals that host countries more
interested (ht 30/11/2010)
Govt
annuls license of 214 overseas manpower agencies (nn 30/11/2010)
Govt
supports 179 migrant workers: 143 contributors and 36 non-contributors
benefit (ht 25/11/2010)
Serious
concern over illegal foreign workers (ht 22/11/2010)
Outflow
of workers exceeds target: 23,809 Nepalis joined foreign jobs in first
four months of fiscal year (ht 20/11/2010), Migrant
workers up (kp 22/11/2010)
New
migration may not grow right away 2,94,094 workers left for overseas
employment in the last fiscal year (ht 15/11/2010)
Law
for migrant workers to change (ht 15/11/2010)
Women
only 2.35 per cent in foreign jobs (ht 12/11/2010)
Significant
rise in outflow of Nepali workers (nn 03/11/2010)
Foreign
employment woes: Elite panel proposes amendment to law (kp
02/11/2010)
Stern
rules: in offing to regulate employment in Gulf (kp 31/10/2010)
Govt
fixes processing charges for overseas job (nn 26/10/2010)
Foreign
employment policy on anvil (nn 22/10/2010)
Outsourcer
opposes migrant smart card (ht 20/10/2010), Agents
dismiss govt plan to issue ID cards for migrant workers (nn
20/10/2010)
People
opting for foreign employment being increasingly duped (nn
12/10/2010)
‘Migrant
workers must follow ethics’ (ht 28/09/2010)
Departures
down: Passport hassles and approaching festivals slow down outbound
labour migration (kp 27/09/2010)
Nepal
goes overseas: Luxury cruise ships increasingly have crew members from
Nepal, by Dambar Krishna Shrestha (nt 24/09/2010)
Rs
212 m for migrant workers’ welfare Scholarships for their children as
well, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 13/09/2010)
Overseas
employment problems, by Prabhakar Ghimire (rep 05/09/2010)
Labour
Ministry ready to resolve problems of Nepali migrant workers (nn
03/09/2010)
Labour
pain: Our labour diplomacy is conspicuous by its absence as thousands
of Nepalis continue to work in dangerous conditions, by Bishal
Bhattarai (kp 31/08/2010)
Migrant
workforce hits roadblock, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 30/08/2010)
Smart
card ID draws flak (kp 28/08/2010)
Getting
migration right: The key is to empower individuals so that every step
of the process is driven by their own informed decisions, by Aya
Tasaki (kp 26/08/2010)
Overseas
jobs market shrinks (ht 23/08/2010), Outflow
of Nepali migrant workers declines (nn 23/08/2010), Less
outbound labour (kp 24/08/2010)
Redress
these, says House panel (kp 20/08/2010)
Only
few women migrant workers recorded (ht 17/08/2010)
Algeria
added as a new destination for workers (ht 12/08/2010)
Half
of the population unemployed: As a result, the number of migrant
workers has grown tremendously (ht 11/08/2010)
'Ban
individual contracts to Gulf' (ht 10/08/2010)
Curious
Nepali workers queue up for Iraqi jobs (ht 06/08/2010)
Foreign
job scams worth Rs 348m (ht 30/07/2010)
Iraq
ban likely to be off today (kp 27/07/2010), Govt
to turn off Iraq ban switch: Travel mode to the war-ravaged country to
get tighter (kp 28/07/2010), Iraq
job door reopens: US military to probe scenario (kp 29/07/2010)
Poland
to hire 400 workers (nn 26/07/2010)
‘Find
new destinations for foreign job seekers’; Job makets to stay active:
FEPB, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 24/07/2010)
Worker
departures 294k last FY (kp 21/07/2010), Departures
of Nepali workers soar by 35.42 percent (nn 21/07/2010), Foreign
employment up 26 pc in 2009-10 (ht 22/07/2010), Right
channels: Foreign employment is not going to stop, but it can be better
managed (kp 22/07/2010)
Govt
mulls identity cards for migrant workers (kp 16/07/2010), Govt
to introduce identity cards for migrant workers (nn 16/07/2010)
391
Nepali workers have died abroad in one year (nn 16/07/2010)
Three
million Nepali youths toiling in foreign lands (nn 15/07/2010)
Beyond
remittance: The government should work to ensure the rights of Nepali
migrant workers overseas, by Bhawana Upadhyay (kp 11/07/2010)
Migration
abates (ht 04/07/2010), Job
aspirants heading overseas declines (nn 04/07/2010)
Prioritise
foreign employment (ht 02/07/2010)
The
migration story: Another facet, by Binod Bhattarai (ht 28/06/2010)
FEPB
spends Rs 65 million on migrant workers’ welfare (ht 27/06/2010)
DoFE
to open 5 branches (ht 26/06/2010)
Number
of outbound workers sets record: 31,636 Nepalis go abroad in a month,
by Ramesh Shrestha (kp 22/06/2010)
Hello
Kitty salvation: Because of Taukay Politics, our best and brightest can
only dream of going to work in a plastic factory in Korea, by
Sushma Joshi (kp 20/06/2010), Unemployment
vs foreign employment, by Prabhakar Ghimire (rep 20/06/2010), Politics
of poverty, by Ameet Dhakal (rep 22/06/2010)
Youth
migrating, elders only hope Officials keep mum even as
workers’migration continues unabated (ht 19/06/2010), For
food, locals go to work for NGOs, by Dikshya Singh (ht 19/06/2010)
Vacancy,
Nepal: What does work mean for Nepalis?, by Artha Beed (nt
18/06/2010)
Foreign
employment (rep 17/06/2010)
Schemes
for migrant workers on the anvil, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht
11/06/2010), Regulating
foreign employment (rep 11/06/2010)
Call
to tie up EIC with employment Linking job with centre key (ht
24/05/2010)
Migrant
workers’ departure rises (kp 21/05/2010)
Outsourcers
take benfits of lack of jobs at home, charge double (ht 17/05/2010)
Strike
affects foreign employment (kp 07/05/2010)
Youth
at work: The self-employment plan was designed to generate jobs through
micro enterprises, by Uma Shankar Prasad (kp 26/04/2010)
Fraud
cases lesser in foreign employment (ht 26/04/2010)
Over
two dozen women leave country every day (ht 23/04/2010)
Manpower
agencies decry GAMCA monopoly (ht 20/04/2010)
Foreign
employment market sees recovery (nn 19/04/2010), More
labourers outbound (kp 21/04/2010), Nepali
workers seeking work abroad up by 63.29 percent in mid-April (nn
21/04/2010)
NFEEA
all set to elect its new executive committee (nn 06/04/2010)
Hard
labour: Existing laws have not been enough to protect Nepali women
abroad (kp 05/04/2010)
Proper
papers best shield for workers abroad (ht 01/04/2010)
Teams
to work on Employment Guarantee Act (ht 25/03/2010)
Govt
urged to ensure migrant workers safety (ht 25/03/2010), Amnesty
International asks govt to ensure safety of workers (nn 25/03/2010)
Departures
of migrant workers down 18pc (kp 22/03/2010)
Fraud
rising in foreign employment (ht 19/03/2010)
EPS
SKorea again hiring workers (ht 19/03/2010)
Workers
migration trend back on track (ht 18/03/2010)
Any
qualified person can apply for jobs in Mauritius (kp 18/03/2010)
Lebanon
to reopen for jobseekers (kp 16/03/2010)
Outflow
of Nepali workers declines by 11.7 pc (nn 15/03/2010)
Malaysia
calls for housemaids (ht 13/03/2010)
Youth
employment fund remains unutilised for over a year (rn 13/03/2010)
MRC
disseminating info on foreign employment (kp 12/03/2010)
New
destination (ht 10/03/2010), Nepal
gets job offers from Papua New Guinea (ht 12/03/2010)
FEPB
to offer scholarships (kp 04/03/2010)
Migration
Resource Center to open soon (nn 21/02/2010)
Malaysia
to regain top post as destination country (ht 19/02/2010)
More
migrant workers getting jobs abroad (ht 18/02/2010)
'RAP
has provided employment to 47,000 poeple' (nn 15/02/2010)
Course
set for Japan-bound workers (kp 14/02/2010)
Foreign
employment rules to be amended (kp 12/02/2010), Govt
mulling to amend Foreign Employment Regulation (nn 12/02/2010)
Khadgi
recounts harrowing tale (ht 04/02/2010)
Info
centre for migrant workers to be set up (kp 03/02/2010)
Foreign
employment up as financial crisis eases (kp 27/01/2010)
Blanket
ban on foreign employment via India, by Anil Giri (kp 26/01/2010)
Hurdles
force govt to revise FER, by Yadav Raj Joshi (ht 04/01/2010) |
