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Debate over raising Malaysia’s minimum wage, including for foreign workers: Who will bear the additional cost? (opens the original)
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KATHMANDU – The debate over raising wages for low-income workers in Malaysia, a major employment destination for Nepalis, is no longer limited to how high the minimum wage should go. A key question now is whether employers alone should bear the additional cost of a wage hike or whether the government should share the burden with businesses. Malaysia is currently debating whether to raise the minimum wage from the existing level of 1,700 ringgit to 2,000 ringgit or 3,100 ringgit. Entrepreneur Dev
Nepal presses Malaysia to convene joint talks over migrant worker recruitment system (opens the original)
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KATHMANDU – Nepal has stepped up efforts to resolve a dispute with Malaysia over the selection of recruitment agencies, pressing Kuala Lumpur to set a date for a meeting of the two countries’ joint technical committee on labour matters. The government wants the committee to address the dispute through a formal bilateral mechanism and prevent the recruitment of Nepali workers for Malaysia from being disrupted. “Malaysia is an important destination for Nepali workers. Nepal disagrees with the way
Malaysia labour row puts Nepali jobs at risk (opens the original)
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KATHMANDU – Malaysia, one of the most sought-after destinations for Nepali migrant workers, is again on the verge of closing its labour market to Nepal amid a dispute over the recruitment agencies authorised to send workers there. The dispute has intensified after Malaysia authorised 25 Nepali recruitment agencies as “principal recruitment agencies” and allowed each to work with up to 10 affiliated agencies. The move has drawn objections from the Nepal government and recruitment agencies, who ar
Nepal to set new migrant recruitment fees after revised law (opens the original)
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KATHMANDU – The government will set new recruitment fees for migrant workers only after the revised foreign employment law is enacted. The announcement came after the Nepal Association of Foreign Employment Agencies suspended a planned shutdown of recruitment companies following talks with Minister for Youth, Labour and Employment Ramjee Yadav on Monday. The agencies had threatened they would stop sending workers abroad from Monday unless the government addressed their 15-point demands, includin
Financial constraints fueling Nepal’s informal women’s labour migration to Kuwait (opens the original)
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KATHMANDU – Nearly 69,000 Nepalis are employed as domestic workers in Kuwait despite a government ban on sending workers for such jobs, proof that Nepal’s migration policy is increasingly out of step with the economic realities driving women to seek work abroad. The figures, provided by Kuwait’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to the Embassy of Nepal in Kuwait, expose the widening gap between government policy and the reality of overseas employment. They also show how restrictions introduced to prot
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