KATHMANDU: First meeting of the labour-related joint working committee (JWC) of Nepal and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has begun in Kathmandu today.

Representatives from both the countries are taking part in the two-day meeting which aims to facilitate a process for the enforcement of bilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on labour agreement signed on June 14 this year.

The new MoU was signed with an objective to revise the labour provisions in line with the post-2007 changes in the basic tenets and principles in the labour migration.

According to the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS), the meeting will finalise issues concerning the effective enforcement of the MoU and fixing of item cost in regard with the recruitment of workers, employment and their return among others.

Deepak Dhakal, Under-Secretary at the MoLESS informed that the meeting would also work out on the technical issues related to implementing the labour agreement. He added that the meeting was expected to determine a modality for enforcement of the MoU.

The six-member Nepali delegation is led by Ram Prasad Ghimire, Joint-Secretary at MoLESS, while the UAE delegation is led by Director of International Relations Division under the Human Resource Ministry, Abdullah Al Nuaimi.