”Employment matching, employer services, career guidance, and labor market information are being conducted only in a limited or uneven manner.”
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The International Labor Organization (ILO) has released a report stating that the employment service centers established at every local level have failed to provide jobs to unemployed youth.
The Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security has established Employment Service Centers at every local level to provide employment and related information to unemployed youth. Releasing its first study report in this regard, the ILO has stated that the service delivery from the center is not as provided for in the employment policy and act.
‘The Employment Service Center has achieved nationwide reach in Nepal.’ There is a clear gap between policy and daily implementation,’ the report concludes, ‘job matching, employer services, career guidance and labor market information related activities are being carried out only in a limited or uneven manner.’
ILO Country Director for Nepal Numan Ozwan said that there should be a transformation from providing short-term measures to modern job matching and employer services based on strong governance and digital systems.
According to the report, the Employment Service Centers are facilitating only ‘Cash for Work’ under the Prime Minister’s Employment Program. The ILO has also stated that employers are not cooperating with the Employment Service Centers.
‘63 percent of employment information has not been registered . The remaining information is registered only in the public sector . This has made it clear that there is weak involvement of private sector employers,’ the report states, ‘This shows the need for building trust in the private sector and expanding services on a large scale .’
Employment Service Centers have been established in all 753 local levels to implement the Right to Employment Act-2075 . The Employment Service Centers have started providing integrated labor and employment services to unemployed youth, including vocational skill development, employment promotion, productive employment creation, entrepreneurship promotion, immigration, and other labor and employment-related services and facilities from the local level. For this, work is underway to establish a model Employment Service Center .
The ILO has stated that the lack of staff positions in the service centers and limited training, poor infrastructure, poor access and awareness, administrative complexity, and inadequate data management have discouraged both job seekers and employers from using the Employment Service Centers .
‘To make this effective, governments at all three levels should adopt a policy framework for the Integrated National Employment Service Center. Mechanisms for communication between employers and labor organizations should be developed. Trust should be built by building employer-oriented services,’ the ILO suggests. ‘A national labor market information system connecting the federal, provincial, and local levels should be created to enable data-based planning and performance management.’
Deepak Kafle, Secretary of the Ministry of Labor, Employment, and Social Security, said that the report would be used as a guide and discussions and collaboration would be held to implement its principles.
