KATHMANDU, FEBRUARY 23
The Ministry of Labour, Employment, and Social Security has formed different taskforces and talk committees to manage foreign employment and domestic labour market.
Labour Minister Krishna Kumar Shrestha constituted six taskforces and committees to manage foreign employment and domestic labour market.
A five-member committee has been formed under the coordination of Chief of Ministry's Employment Management Division in a bid to bring timely reforms in Foreign Employment Act, 2007, to make foreign employment more safe, managed and dignified.
The taskforce will present a final draft to submit to the Cabinet by holding stakeholders' consultation and seeking official views from the Ministry of Law and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Likewise, a six-member taskforce has been formed to develop a guideline regarding the formation and mobilisation of workers' cooperative groups. The cooperative concept has been brought for the welfare of workers and their families as well as for ensuring social security and protection of workers.
The ministry has also constituted a five-member taskforce to carry out a study on integrating the members of the families of workers in foreign employment into the health insurance programme.
Likewise, a seven-member talks team has been constituted to represent a joint work group to send workers to Israel in the construction sector. Israel has formed a talks team for bilateral talks and discussions for the same.
Similarly, the ministry has formed a five-member taskforce to carry out a study on sending seasonal workforce to South Korea.
At a discussion held yesterday at the ministry, chiefs of the local level governments had enquired about the measures being taken to send the youths of the municipalities having sisterly relations with South Korea to the country.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 24, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
