Overseas jobs getting secure for Nepali workers

In what could be termed as an impact of a gradual mitigation of global economic turmoil, the number of workers returning home due to job cuts has reduced remarkably in recent months.

"In the past the number of Nepali migrant labourers returning home due to lay off resorted to by destination countries used to hover around 80 a month. Now,the same figure is significantly low, media reports quoted a senior official of Foreign Employment Promotion Board (FEPB) as saying.

However, the number of returnees is said to have reached 211 since the beginning of 2009.

The FEPB, till date, has also provided compensation of over Rs 1.8 million to migrant workers who have returned home.

According to reports, as the countries where the concentration of Nepali labour force is high, are gradually coming out of the morass of global recession, the number of people applying for compensation has also witnessed a sharp drop in recent weeks.

The government and FEPB have been jointly providing those workers facing job crisis within six months and a year of their appointment a 40 percent and 25 percent of their cost respectively.

Both the sides have been bearing compensation liability on equal basis.

It is also learnt that the demands for Nepali workers in major labor destinations such as Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia has gradually increased in recent days.