Businessmen demand to set service fee equal to two months' salary
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The Nepal Foreign Employment Entrepreneurs' Unity Committee has demanded that the government scientifically determine the service fee equivalent to two months' salary, saying that it cannot send workers for foreign employment for 10,000 rupees.
After the monitoring team deployed by the Ministry of Youth, Labor and Employment and the Department of Foreign Employment started arresting foreign employment entrepreneurs, they have put forward the demand to determine the service fee. The Ministry of Labor had adopted a policy on 26 Jestha 2072 to charge 10,000 rupees as a service fee for sending workers to the Gulf and Malaysia.
'On the day the state was announcing 10,000 rupees. On the same day, we were protesting in Tahachal (department). We have been saying that we cannot send workers for 10,000 rupees for 11 years. We have not sent them for 10,000 rupees,' said committee chairman Hari Bahadur Pandey at a press conference organized by the committee on Wednesday. 'We are forced to charge more than that. We have already charged it.' There is no point in asking for bribes or hiding stones in this. The state should be told the truth. We cannot send workers across the seven seas for 10,000 rupees. The committee said that they should be allowed to charge a service fee equal to two months' salary. When a worker comes from Jajarkot to Kathmandu, it costs 10-15,000 rupees. It is not possible to send them for 10,000, he said, "Fix the service fee. We will not allow them to charge more than that. If they do, we will take responsibility for it." According to manpower entrepreneurs, the Minister of Labor has been informed about this. They said that the manpower is being raided by external parties, not by the Foreign Employment Department. "People outside the department are coming in a guerrilla style. The department is the body that monitors us. We welcome the employees of the department when they come,' he said, 'Let them take an amount equal to two months' salary. We pay taxes to the state accordingly. We also give receipts to the workers who go. This sector can be made dignified.'
The committee has stated that neighboring countries are charging a reasonable service fee when sending workers for foreign employment.
'Nepali businessmen have to compete with businessmen from these countries and demand Nepali workers. However, due to Nepal's policy of free service fees and even air tickets, they are unable to compete,' said Harish Kuwar, vice-chairman of the committee. 'In Nepal too, as per the practice of neighboring countries, arrangements should be made for two months' salary service fees and if the employer company does not provide air tickets, the workers should take their own air tickets.'
According to them, there is no demand for charging a service fee for all visas. "The employment company is sending them abroad for free, even though it has provided free visas, free tickets and service fees," he said.
