The authority to verify the petition rests with the embassy

In order to make foreign employment safe and orderly, Labor Minister Dol Prasad Aryal on May 6 revoked the Procedures for Examining and Approving Foreign Employment Requisitions, 2080 and returned all rights of requisition authorization to the embassy. He has continued the system of verifying the demand for foreign employment according to the 2075 guidelines issued by the then Labor Minister Gokarn Bista.

2075, if there are Nepali workers in the employer company, their condition, minimum wage and service facilities and the condition of three months salary distribution, worker's workplace, housing, health and safety conditions, whether the employer is blacklisted and legality, etc. The right to do is given.

Outgoing Labor Minister Sharatsingh Bhandari brought the Procedure for Examining and Approving Demand Papers-2080 instead of the said guidelines. It was said that Nepali embassies in Europe, South Korea and Japan were not able to carry out on-site monitoring, so job opportunities were lost due to non-verification of demand letters and new procedures had to be brought in as they were defrauded. According to the procedure, if there is no recommendation within 15 days of the demand letter submitted to the embassy, ​​a high-level committee formed under the leadership of the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Labor will look into it. The members of the

committee are the Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Deputy Secretary of the Foreign Employment Department, the Deputy Secretary of the Law and Decision Implementation Branch of the Ministry of Labor and the Deputy Secretary of the Labor Employment Coordination and Information Branch. However, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs disagreed with this procedure and did not send a representative. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been maintaining that the matter of sending workers for foreign employment should not be limited to the verification of the demand letter, but should be focused on clearly addressing various aspects of the workers' interests.

'During the verification of the demand, basically the certified documents of the guarantee of 24-hour insurance of the workers, Nepali workers should see the same minimum wage as the citizens of other countries for the same work, overtime wages, air-conditioned housing of humanitarian standards, free housing or rent, water, electricity, visa fees, It is said in the opinion given to Labor by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, "It seems appropriate for the government to make a suitable policy guideline, transparent and send those who go for foreign employment only by regulating them so that they are not exploited."

Individuals are going to Europe at their own risk because they cannot send workers institutionally. Last year, 38,000 Nepalese, the highest ever, went to Europe with work permits. According to the Department of Foreign Employment, the number of people going individually has started to increase rather than sending workers according to the institutional demand.

According to the Nepal Foreign Employment Professionals Association, the demand letter verification has been stopped in the European region for a year. Union President Rajendra Bhandari says that workers are being sent on visit visas and educational counseling when the demand letter verification is stopped. "If labor entrusts all work related to the verification of demand letters to foreign countries, then they should verify all the demand letters. If not, the Ministry of Labor must verify the demand letter brought by the businessmen from the country that does not have an embassy. The work of going to workers through visit visa and educational counseling should be stopped,” he said.