The network runs on a special software, the employing of which should obviate the need for overseas-jobs seekers, and their local employment agencies, to go through the old tedious process of filing their papers at, and having them verified by, the authorities concerned. In fact, the foreign-employment agencies can even conduct all their paperwork from the confines of their offices; they´ll merely need to go online, log on to the network and submit worker´s documents, applications to the concerned authorities for permission to work abroad, and so on. Earlier, for example, the agencies would have needed at least three days just to get the final permission from the government for sending the workers abroad.
It´s not just the manpower agencies and workers who´ll benefit from DoFE´s new network. All the main governmental units will, in a heartbeat, be able to share and verify information related to the outbound worker´s jobs--the salaries and benefits the workers will receive, the nature of their jobs, the details about the employers, labor contracts, and so on.
Furthermore, according to Bed Prakash Lekhak, the director at the DoEP, the authorities´ using the new system will also prevent the manpower agencies from manipulating the information provided by the employers abroad and the information about the workers that the agencies provide the government here: if needed, any relevant information can be pulled up and verified immediately.
According to Lekhak, the DoFE has already started training two dozen of its employees, including ten officials, to work the new system. The DoFE has been provided with assistance for this project by the International Labor Organization, the United Nations Development Program, and the Department of International Development.
Related story
Online service of DoFE disrupted
