What is in the draft of the proposed labor immigration policy?

Labor expert Dr. Ganesh Gurung's expert team It was submitted to Labor, Employment and Social Security Minister Sharatsingh Bhandari last Sunday. The expert team took 9 months to prepare the draft by incorporating the suggestions of multilateral stakeholders.

'We have a foreign employment policy prepared in 2068 . This policy cannot address the current situation . "We are going to bring a comprehensive immigration policy to deal with all the steps from leaving home for foreign employment to resettlement," Labor Minister Bhandari said, "we do not have the conditions to immediately establish new industries and provide employment to the available manpower in Nepal". It is necessary to develop a well-informed, skilled, competitive and professional labor force according to the demand of the international labor market. The goal of the new policy is to end forced labor migration by making labor migration profitable and promoting self-employment and entrepreneurship in the country.

Minister Bhandari said that the draft labor migration policy will be completed only after receiving suggestions from multilateral stakeholders. "This policy will be completed only after suggestions from Nepali trade unions, experts and the Nepali community abroad," he said.

The proposed policy aims to ensure information, services and good governance in labor migration, to end the compulsion to go to labor migration due to the lack of employment opportunities within Nepal, and to manage foreign workers working in Nepal.

Similarly, the aim of maintaining good governance in labor migration management is also set. For this, the labor immigration process will be made simple and worker-friendly, the Foreign Employment Act 2064 and the Foreign Employment Regulations 2064 will be amended to make the labor immigration process simple, easy, transparent and accountable, and the laws of the entire government and society will be adopted when creating and amending policies and legal structures related to labor immigration. Tactics have been taken .

Former Secretary Purnachandra Bhattarai said that it is necessary to completely revise the Foreign Employment Act to simplify the management of foreign employment. "This law should not be amended suddenly. It should be completely revised to address the current market.'

The draft has a strategy to ensure that workers do not have to bear the cost of the labor immigration process, which has been the subject of the most controversy for a decade.

'Expenses incurred during labor migration will be expanded and effectively implemented by the employer, a clean and fair recruitment process will be adopted, an effective monitoring mechanism will be created with rewards and penalties for employers and businessmen who provide services related to labor migration It is in the strategy that the payment system will be mentioned in the bilateral labor agreement with the labor destination country, and the foreign employment businessmen will be held accountable to make the labor recruitment process transparent, fair and ethical.

Rajendra Bhandari, president of Nepal Foreign Employment Business Association, says that the policy of employer pay model should be taken after looking at the employer. "Which employer bears all the expenses ". No problem with that. However, the employer does not bear all the expenses. In such a situation, a policy should be taken to allow the workers to receive service fees,' he said, 'If the employer goes to the pay model, the problem will be the same.' . For this, it is mentioned that the data will be kept through the employment service center at the local level and identity cards will be provided gradually and consistency will be maintained in data collection.

It is mentioned to create a suitable model like foreign employment welfare fund for the welfare work of the workers going to India . In 2073, the government led by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal introduced a policy to record workers going to India in the border area, but it could not be implemented. Instead, some local governments in the Far West have started documenting workers going to India on their own initiative. In the draft of the

policy, it is mentioned that priority should be given to the role of local government and family at the initial stage of the labor migration cycle. Information and information will be given at the local level from informing the workers and their families about the problems, challenges, possibilities and opportunities that may occur at different stages of immigration. The draft also addresses the issue of making the

labor diplomacy and the services it provides effective. The delegation will be equipped with resources, their capacity will be developed, the monitoring system will be made effective and Nepalese laborers will be easily accessible to the delegation. is . According to the Auditor General's report, the welfare and safety of the workers has not been able to be protected due to lack of resources and facilities for the Nepali Mission.

In the draft, in the draft, "Implementation of bilateral labor agreements with labor destination countries to protect the rights of migrant workers and comply with international laws," identifying and developing the skills and competencies of workers according to the demands and trends of the labor market of the destination country, prioritizing internal employment, workers who have returned from labor migration A policy has been taken to ensure social security through sustainable and respectful reintegration and to regulate and manage foreign workers working in Nepal in accordance with Nepal's national interests and needs. Gurung, the coordinator of the

draft, said that the draft was made after taking the suggestions of the concerned parties in all the seven provinces with the welfare of migrant workers at the center. The government plans to make the next decade the employment decade is . To address this, 6 policies, 24 strategies and 113 tactics have been made," he said, "Remittances have reduced 42 percent of Nepal's poor to 30 percent. Now this policy will contribute more to bring it down as well. The

team members Dr. Amrita Sharma, Dr. Keshav Basyal, Juna Mathema, Manju Gurung and Member Secretary Deepak Dhakal are . Similarly, Chiranjeevi Baral and Yuvraj Nepal were also involved in the policy research team.