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Minister for Youth, Labor and Employment Ramji Yadav has said that he is ready to review the policy of free visa and free ticket implemented for workers going for foreign employment and determine the fee.
‘The very word free visa and free ticket is wrong. Instead, there should be dignified admission. It should be zero. We must encourage zero cost. Even if only one rupee is spent when a person reaches a foreign country from a village, it is not dignified admission,’ he said at a program organized at the Ministry of Labor on Tuesday. ‘We are ready to review the policy of free visa and free ticket. How much should it be fixed? We should discuss how to fix it, we will fix it. It has to be reviewed scientifically. We will discuss it with all parties.’
Employers who cannot provide even basic facilities will not accept the demand letter Labor Minister Yadav said that he will not accept the demand letter of an employer who cannot provide even basic facilities to the workers. ‘The work as promised is not available. 10 people have to live in one room. If there is no food address, the demand letter will not be verified,' he said.
He said that the verification of demand letters by the embassy is also being reviewed. 'Once the embassy lists the workers once, there is no need to go to the embassy every time with the file. Once identified, the verification is done automatically. The embassy or department should pay attention to the time of listing,' he said, 'The zero-cost file has been stopped at the embassy for three months. We will free this sector from personal interests, influence and access.'
Currently, 6,000 companies are registered in Malaysia and 12,000 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 'The market to which we send workers. They need workers quickly,' he said, 'The embassy and the department have separate mechanisms.' It should be made uniform.'
He said that the sector itself is in trouble because foreign employment entrepreneurs do not make the service fees they charge from workers transparent. 'It has not been possible to send workers according to the policy of free visa and free ticket.' The actual cost has become zero,' said Rajendra Bhandari, the then president of the Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs Association. 'We should determine the amount that will be charged.' According to him, only multinational companies are taking workers at zero cost.
Rohan Gurung, former president of the Nepal Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs Association, said that the 31-point agreement made by entrepreneurs with the Ministry of Labor in 2072 should be implemented. 'The government's policy has not been able to make the foreign employment sector transparent. Currently, sending a single worker costs Rs 35,000. It was wrong to send it for Rs 10,000,' he said. 'It has only been a matter of punishing the business.' The government has a policy of cutting tickets when sending them. They are telling us to send them for 10,000. This has become a discriminatory policy.’
