- Type
- Act
- Year
- २०७५ BS · 2018 AD
- Status
- In force
- Category
- खण्ड ९: पर्यटन, श्रम तथा यातायात · Volume 9: Tourism, Labor and Transport
- Official text
- Official page Official text (PDF)
- English translation
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What does it do?
- Every citizen has the right to employment and to choose their work; no one may be forced into work against their will, and employers may not discriminate on grounds such as origin, religion, caste, sex, language, region or belief. People may not be dismissed without cause, and a person dismissed unlawfully can apply to the employment service centre, after which the local level may direct the employer to take them back.प्रत्येक नागरिकलाई रोजगारी पाउने र आफूले चाहेको रोजगारी छनोट गर्ने अधिकार छ; कसैलाई इच्छाविपरीत काममा लगाउन पाइँदैन, र उत्पत्ति, धर्म, जात, लिङ्ग, भाषा, क्षेत्र वा विचार जस्ता आधारमा रोजगारीमा भेदभाव गर्न पाइँदैन। कारणबिना रोजगारीबाट हटाउन पाइँदैन; गैरकानूनी रूपमा हटाइएको व्यक्तिले रोजगार सेवा केन्द्रमा निवेदन दिन सक्छ, र स्थानीय तहले रोजगारदातालाई काममा फर्काउन निर्देशन दिन सक्छ। Nepal Law Commission, Government of Nepal Sections 3–7, pp. 2–3
- The federal, provincial and local governments must run employment programmes to give unemployed people minimum employment, with priority to women, Dalits, the poor and families of martyrs and the disappeared. Each local level has an employment service centre that registers the unemployed, collects employers' details and labour demand, and shares job information; a steering committee coordinates policy and evaluates programmes.संघ, प्रदेश र स्थानीय तहले बेरोजगारलाई न्यूनतम रोजगारी दिन रोजगार कार्यक्रम चलाउनुपर्छ, जसमा महिला, दलित, विपन्न, शहीद परिवार र बेपत्ता पारिएका व्यक्तिका परिवारलाई प्राथमिकता दिइन्छ। प्रत्येक स्थानीय तहमा रहने रोजगार सेवा केन्द्रले बेरोजगारको सूचीकरण, रोजगारदाताको विवरण र श्रमिक मागको सङ्कलन तथा रोजगारीको सूचना प्रवाह गर्छ; निर्देशक समितिले नीतिगत समन्वय र कार्यक्रमको मूल्याङ्कन गर्छ। Nepal Law Commission, Government of Nepal Sections 8–19, pp. 3–7
- Unemployment assistance includes job information, training, subsidised loans and self-employment support; people who refuse assigned work are removed from the list. If the government cannot give a registered unemployed person minimum employment, it must pay a subsistence allowance of 50% of the minimum wage for 100 days a year (or for the days short of 100), but only to households where no one has a job, self-employment or foreign employment and whose income is below a set level.बेरोजगार सहायतामा रोजगारीको सूचना, तालिम, सहुलियतपूर्ण ऋण र स्वरोजगार सहयोग पर्छन्; खटाइएको काममा नजाने व्यक्ति सूचीबाट हटाइन्छ। सूचीकृत बेरोजगारलाई न्यूनतम रोजगारी दिन नसके सरकारले वर्षमा १०० दिनको (वा १०० दिन पुग्न बाँकी दिनको) न्यूनतम पारिश्रमिकको ५० प्रतिशत निर्वाह भत्ता दिनुपर्छ, तर परिवारमा कसैको रोजगारी, स्वरोजगार वा वैदेशिक रोजगारी नभएका र तोकिएभन्दा कम आय भएका परिवारलाई मात्र। Nepal Law Commission, Government of Nepal Sections 20–22, pp. 7–8
Gaps, loopholes and improvement ideas
- Not enforced The minimum-employment guarantee reaches few of those registered. Under the Prime Minister Employment Programme, which runs the Act's employment service centres, Rs 6 billion was budgeted in FY 2081/82 to give about 200,000 people at least 100 days of work, but only 54,587 people got work, for an average of 53 days, at a cost of Rs 4.85 billion; this was out of 797,725 unemployed people registered. Employment service centres had not kept their data on domestic and foreign jobs up to date.न्यूनतम रोजगारीको प्रत्याभूति सूचीकृतमध्ये थोरैले मात्र पाएका छन्। ऐनबमोजिमका रोजगार सेवा केन्द्रमार्फत चल्ने प्रधानमन्त्री रोजगार कार्यक्रममा २०८१/८२ मा करिब २ लाख व्यक्तिलाई कम्तीमा १०० दिन रोजगारी दिने लक्ष्यसहित रु. ६ अर्ब बजेट विनियोजन भए पनि ५४,५८७ जनाले मात्र औसत ५३ दिन रोजगारी पाए र रु. ४ अर्ब ८५ करोड खर्च भयो; त्यस बेला ७,९७,७२५ बेरोजगार सूचीकृत थिए। रोजगार सेवा केन्द्रले आन्तरिक र बाह्य रोजगारीको सूचना र तथ्याङ्क अद्यावधिक गरेका थिएनन्। Office of the Auditor General, Nepal · Nepal Law Commission, Government of Nepal OAG 63rd Report, MoLESS chapter, para 10, printed pp. 466–467; Act ss. 8, 10 and 22, pp. 3–4, 8
Where does it conflict with other laws?
No conflict with another law is documented in the sources we have reviewed so far.
Regulations and rules made under it
- रोजगारीको हक सम्बन्धी नियमावली, २०७५ In force