The International Labor Organization (ILO) has designed the course of study. A task force led by under-secretary of the Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM) has already submitted the new course of study to Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB) for approval.
“The new course of study will be enforced immediately once the FEPB endorses it,” Sthaneswor Devkota, executive director of the FEPB told myrepublica.com on Saturday.
Devkota said the new course aims to give maximum information to foreign job aspirants about job destinations, workers´ rights, work safety, precautions to be taken at work places and others measures for their benefits.
The course of study was designed in consultation with representatives from various non- governmental organizations working for the welfare of migrant workers, workers unions, and foreign employment orientation centers.
“The course will focus on improving the information about the workplaces, workers rights, safety and other inputs beneficial for the outbound workers,” Devkota said. Though the government has made it mandatory for foreign-bound workers to undergo orientation training, such trainings were limited to a mere formality leading workers to different problems in the labor destinations. About four dozen orientation centers are operating across the country.
“We are making it mandatory for the orientation centers to hire subject specialists so that the trainings are more comprehensive and fruitful,” said Mukunda Adhikari, under-secretary of FEPB. The training centers must also be equipped with audio-video facilities where information about workplace, geographical condition of recipient countries, experience of ex-overseas workers and other job-related issues can be presented before job aspirants. The two-day orientation has to be run for twelve and a half hours each day.
“To facilitate the workers to know about their jobs and work destinations, we, with support from the ILO, are also developing relevant books about major work destinations,” said Adhikari.
Due to lack of proper course of study and effective monitoring of foreign employment orientation centers in the past, workers are facing different problems in foreign land. “In a bid to end the practice of limiting the orientation as a mere formality, we are making the monitoring system more effective in the coming days,” said Adhikari.
Related story
Special course for volleyball coaches starts
