In the agreement between the two countries, according to the standards of the International Labor Organization (ILO), the issues of workers' rights, occupational health protection, change of employers, fair recruitment of workers are included.
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The government has given permission to the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security to sign a labor agreement with Saudi Arabia. The meeting of the Council of Ministers held on Friday approved the labor agreement with Saudi Arabia. The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security negotiated with Saudi Arabia in a phased manner and prepared a draft of the labor agreement and sent it to the Cabinet for approval.
The Ministry of Labor is going to make an agreement regarding the skill certification program of general and skilled workers by keeping the contract of domestic workers. We will send the labor agreement passed by the Cabinet to Saudi Arabia. After that, we will sign the labor agreement at a suitable time and place for both parties," an official of the Ministry of Labor told Ikantipur.
In the last week of May in Geneva, the Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Security Sharatsingh Bhandari and the Deputy Minister of International Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Tariq Al Hamad, agreed to make a general agreement pending the agreement related to domestic workers . More homework will be done in the domestic labor agreement with Saudi.
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There are currently 4 lakh Nepalis working in Saudi Arabia. The most manufactured And working in the service sector . In the last 10 years, only 1,352,800 people worked in Saudi Arabia. In which there are 111,000 female workers . In the financial year 2081/82, 152,000 people left for re-employment.
International human rights organizations are pressuring Saudi Arabia to meaningfully address issues related to the weak human rights and protection of migrant workers working in Saudi Arabia. Organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Equidem, and Fair Square have been saying that Saudi Arabia should follow human rights standards to provide security and rights to migrant workers.
Every day, at least 25 workers go to the Nepali Embassy in Riyadh with complaints that the workers are not paid the minimum wage, change the contract and are not allowed to return home.
"Now the biggest challenge for us is to implement the minimum salary determined by Nepal," said an official of the Nepali Embassy in Riyadh, "We are saying that Saudi Arabia should determine the salary itself." If it is difficult for Saudis to do this, we are saying that the employer should look at the contract with the worker and issue a visa. After becoming a member of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Saudi Arabia is under pressure to improve the welfare and safety of migrant workers. Noting that it was the first country in the Gulf region to ratify the ILO's 2014 Protocol to the Forced Labor Convention, Saudi Arabia has introduced a national policy to eliminate forced labor to create a safe and attractive labor market that protects the rights of all workers.
"Saudi Arabia is committed to implementing the contract between the workers and the employer". If the workers are not getting paid according to the contract or if they have to make an Akama (Resident ID card), we have made a mechanism to immediately file a complaint through digital means . We are implementing it effectively," Saudi Arabia's Deputy Minister of International Affairs, Tariq Al Hamad, said to Labor Minister Bhandari. We have arranged that the employer can be changed if the Saudis do not receive salary for three months.'
