December 14, 2023 20:36 pm
KATHMANDU, Dec 14: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security, Sharat Singh Bhandari, has stressed the need for systematizing the labor market preparing the will to carry out work through collective initiatives.
November 25, 2023 21:00 pm
KATHMANDU, Nov 25: The number of single women in Nepal has increased of late, according to the latest report. In 2011, single women accounted for 1.5 percent of the total population in Nepal, but by 2021, this percentage has reached 7.3 percent.
June 19, 2023 18:45 pm
KATHMANDU, June 19: Finance Minister Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat stated today that the budget allocated for capital expenditure has been reduced due to the growing liability for social security.
May 29, 2023 19:49 pm
KATHMANDU, May 29: The government has allocated Rs 157 billion for social security programs including allowances for senior citizens.
November 28, 2022 09:50 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 28: The government is preparing to cover social security for workers in the informal sector, Nepali migrant workers abroad and those engaged through self-employment.
May 23, 2022 16:50 pm
KATHMANDU, May 23: A session of the National Assembly, the upper house of the Federal Parliament, approved eight various ordinances today.
September 23, 2019 01:29 am
Social protection programs are generally popular: they are important instruments of wealth redistribution and even if they are not considered equalizers, they are programs in the right direction.
September 14, 2019 20:44 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 14: Minister for Labour, Employment and Social Security Gokarna Bista has urged all the private schools in the country to enlist in the contribution-based social security scheme by October 17.
August 25, 2019 17:30 pm
KATHMANDU, Aug 25: Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security, Gokarna Bista, has said employers need not be stingy to embrace the contribution-based social security scheme.
April 17, 2019 09:41 am
KATHMANDU, April 17: Social Security Fund (SSF) has no cash to run social security programs immediately as the government has not provided it Rs 22 billion collected for the purpose over the last eight years.
March 18, 2019 17:20 pm
KATHMANDU, March 18: Finance Minister Dr Yuba Raj Khatiwada has said that the social security program would be kept under a single umbrella.
January 28, 2019 20:25 pm
KATHMANDU, Jan 28: Enthusiastic participation of employers in social security scheme based on contribution has been taking place. Some 625 employer companies of province no 3 including Kathmandu valley have already been enlisted in social security fund till Sunday.
December 8, 2018 10:29 am
KATHMANDU, Dec 8: A total of 196 firms have listed themselves for the newly introduced contributory-based social security scheme.
November 28, 2018 06:00 am
KATHMANDU, Nov 28: The government has launched a social security scheme that multiple stakeholders have hailed as a 'milestone' in the country's labor relations and social protection for workers employed by the private sector.
November 28, 2018 02:00 am
Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on Tuesday unveiled a new social security scheme, aimed at protecting the rights of formal private sector employees.