14 manpower companies suspended for using dubious certificates to send Nepali workers to Japan

KATHMANDU, Oct 3: The Department of Foreign Employment has taken action by suspending 14 manpower companies (recruitment agencies) for their involvement in sending Nepali workers to Japan based on questionable certificates of language and cultural training required for foreign employment.

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Tricks Of Traffickers

Remittances, sent by Nepali workers from abroad, provide a lifeline to the national economy. But this contribution is not without a huge socio-economic cost. The migrant workers are compelled to get involved in dirty, difficult and dangerous jobs. The insecure jobs have cost the lives of thousands of Nepalis over the years. Every day at least three bodies of Nepali land at the Tribhuvan International Airport. This is indeed a tragedy of Nepali youths forced to make fortune in foreign land owing to poverty, ignorance, lack of better education and employment opportunity at home. As going abroad becomes a compulsion rather than a wish, the Nepali workers make every effort to join the international labour market. This is a reason why they fall prey to fraudsters and deceptive agents of manpower companies. They are easily trapped by the traffickers that work on the pretext of offering lucrative foreign jobs.

Akarshan and Laldhanush to send workers to Malaysia free of cost

Akarshan International and Laldhanush International are going to take Nepali workers to Malaysia free of cost. Malaysia's Wistron Technology and the two Nepali manpower companies reached an agreement in Kathmandu on Tuesday to send workers at zero cost. Malaysia is one of the prime destinations of foreign employment for Nepali workers. Wistron, an international technology company based in Malaysia, signed an agreement with the two manpower companies to take the workers free of cost.

Beware of cheats, DoFE tells migrant workers

The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) has urged aspiring migrant workers to Israel to be vigilant about the increasing fraud using social media, citing that the Department was itself sending workers to Israel. Issuing a press statement on Wednesday, the Department said that no private sector, manpower companies, consultancies, agencies and individuals are allowed to involve in the selection process of Nepali workers to be sent to the Israeli care centres. According to the department, the cheaters were found to be collecting money from the applicants by using social media with a false claim that they had reached an agreement with the government of Nepal to send workers to Israel.