KATHMANDU, Nov 13: The government is now going to operate vocational training institutes to produce manpower required for the national and international markets.

KATHMANDU, June 4: The government is making preparations to open foreign employment for aspiring migrant workers in all countries with which it has diplomatic relations. The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) is doing its homework to open up foreign employment even in Iraq, a lucrative destination for security workers. Until now, the government has banned work permits for  Iraq but Nepalis have been going to the Gulf country through illegal channels.

KATHMANDU, May 18: The 6th Nepal Chamber Expo-2023 kicked off here in Kathmandu on Thursday.

KATHMANDU, March 31: Newly-appointed Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, Sharat Singh Bhandari, has vowed to make his ministry a reputed institution. Minister Bhandari made the remarks while assuming his office at Singha Durbar today.

KATHMANDU, Jan 6: The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security is to issue the institutional and individual labour permit from the seven provinces from January 8. Before this the Ministry had been providing the labour permits only from Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, August 1: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security, Sher Bahadur Kunwar has said he will work to make the foreign employment sector further well-managed and dignified.

KATHMANDU, July 25: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Sher Bahadur Kunwar has said the government would address issues in the sector of foreign employment.

KATHMANDU, July 21: The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) has directed stakeholders concerned to make foreign employment more effective by resolving problems seen in the foreign employment information system.

GODAWARI, July 11: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security, Sher Bahadur Kunwar has said that it is important to secure the foreign employment sector.

KATHMANDU, July 8: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Sher Bahadur Kunwar has said the coverage of social security would be expanded.

KATHMANDU, JULY 6: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security, Sher Bahadur Kunwar has monitored the language test center for workers going to Korea through the EPS system.

KATHMANDU, July 4: Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Sher Bahadur Kunwar pledged to ensure that the national and foreign laborers would get their dues for their works.

KATHMANDU, Jan 28: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Krishna Kumar Shrestha has said that the government will take action against the foreign employment entrepreneurs who leave Nepali citizens stranded abroad on visit visa.

KATHMANDU, Dec 13: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security, Krishna Bahadur Shahi has said that vocational and skill development centers will be established in all seven provinces of the country.

KATHMANDU, Dec 4: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security, Krishna Kumar Shrestha has said that the landless problems of Shuklagandaki Municipality will be resolved very soon.

KATHMANDU, Oct 19: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Krishna Kumar Shrestha has directed concerned authorities to streamline the service flow after inspecting the Social Security Fund and Foreign Employment Board in Babermahal on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Feb 1: It is not a new thing for the manpower companies to charge the youths going for foreign employment more than the prescribed fees. The government has implemented a rule that states that manpower companies are not allowed to charge more than Rs 10,000 to the workers going to the Gulf countries and Malaysia.

KATHMANDU, July 7: Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security, Gokarna Bista, has said the government is committed to utmost security of the Nepalis working abroad.

KATHMANDU, June 24: The government has initiated preparation to return Nepali laborers who have been languishing at coma in different hospitals abroad.

CHITWAN, April 9: The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security has launched a “National Master Plan 2075-2085 BS” to abolish child labor. The master plan aims to eradicate child labor from 50 local units in the first year.  The first stage has begun with a program targeting to abolish child labor from 17 such local units.

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