Kathmandu: Nepali migrant workers can now make payments to the foreign employment welfare fund and temporary life insurance policy online, reducing the hassles they were supposed to face in the …

Kathmandu: If there is one of the most pressing issues before government, employing the home returnees within the country can't be denied at present. But sheer lack of data on who has what s…

WASHINGTON: The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits declined last week to a still-high 837,000, evidence that the economy is struggling to sustain a tentative recovery that began t…

Kathmandu: The Department of Foreign Employment has said it will issue labour permit only after no objection certificate (NOC) is verified by the concerned Nepali Embassy. The NOC is initially p…

Solukhumbu: Eleven migrant workers working at a company in Malaysia are stranded for past five months due to COVID-19 outbreak.     Ghanshyam Shrestha, a permanent resident…

Ilam: Tea factory workers here have warned of launching an agitation if tea entrepreneurs did not fulfil their demands. There is provision of increasing remuneration of tea workers in every two …

Kathmandu: A memorandum of understanding has been signed to provide full remuneration to the COVID-19 embattled workers for the month of Chaitra (mid-March-mid-April) and fifty percent for Baisakh (m…

Kathmandu: The government has sought applications from people for employment opportunities. The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security has written to all 753 local levels to collect names…

Kathmandu: Prime Minister KP Oli has said that protection of the most vulnerable, including the migrant workers and those in informal sectors, and provision of adequate social security and health car…