Foreign Employment Regulation, 2064

What does it do?

• An organisation that wants to run a foreign employment (recruitment) business applies to the Department of Foreign Employment with its registration certificate, articles, PAN certificate, business plan, tax clearance and its directors' citizenship. Directors must not have a criminal conviction involving moral turpitude or have run an agency whose licence was cancelled. If approved, the Department issues the licence on payment of a Rs 20,000 fee and the deposit or bank guarantee required by Section 11(2) of the Act; the bank guarantee must run for at least five years.वैदेशिक रोजगार व्यवसाय गर्न चाहने संस्थाले दर्ता प्रमाणपत्र, प्रबन्धपत्र र नियमावली, स्थायी लेखा नम्बर, व्यावसायिक कार्ययोजना, कर चुक्ता र सञ्चालकको नागरिकतासहित वैदेशिक रोजगार विभागमा निवेदन दिनुपर्छ। सञ्चालक नैतिक पतन देखिने फौजदारी मुद्दामा सजाय पाएको वा इजाजत रद्द भएको संस्थाको सञ्चालक हुनु हुँदैन। विभागले उपयुक्त देखेमा रु. २० हजार दस्तुर र ऐनको दफा ११(२) बमोजिमको धरौटी वा बैङ्क ग्यारेन्टी लिएर इजाजतपत्र दिन्छ; बैङ्क ग्यारेन्टी कम्तीमा पाँच वर्षको हुनुपर्छ। Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Rule 6(1)-(2) and Rule 7(1), PDF pp. 3-4
• Licences must be renewed every fiscal year by the end of Asar. The agency must show proof of its income-tax filing and, since the fifth amendment, documents showing it sent at least 100 workers abroad in each of the last two years. The renewal fee is Rs 10,000 a year. A late renewal is possible until the end of Asoj on payment of an extra Rs 10,000 for each month; an agency that does not renew cannot carry on the business.इजाजतपत्र हरेक आर्थिक वर्षको असार मसान्तभित्र नवीकरण गर्नुपर्छ। आयकर दाखिलाको प्रमाण र पाँचौँ संशोधनपछि पछिल्ला दुई आर्थिक वर्षमा हरेक वर्ष कम्तीमा १०० जना कामदार वैदेशिक रोजगारमा पठाएको कागजात पेस गर्नुपर्छ। नवीकरण दस्तुर वर्षको रु. १० हजार हो। म्याद नाघेमा हरेक महिनाको थप रु. १० हजार तिरेर असोज मसान्तसम्म नवीकरण गर्न सकिन्छ; नवीकरण नगरे वैदेशिक रोजगार व्यवसाय गर्न पाइँदैन। Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Rule 8(1) (incl. clause (क१) added by the fifth amendment), (3)-(4), PDF pp. 4-5
• Before leaving, a worker must take orientation training on a curriculum approved by the Foreign Employment Board, covering Nepal's foreign employment law, the destination country's language, culture, labour and immigration law, health and safety, and safe ways to send money home. A worker who has already taken it does not need to repeat it for the same country. Each worker must also pay into the Foreign Employment Welfare Fund: Rs 1,500 for a contract of up to three years, or Rs 2,500 for a longer contract.वैदेशिक रोजगारमा जानुअघि कामदारले वैदेशिक रोजगार बोर्डले स्वीकृत गरेको पाठ्यक्रमअनुसार अभिमुखीकरण तालिम लिनुपर्छ। यसमा नेपालको वैदेशिक रोजगार कानून, गन्तव्य मुलुकको भाषा, संस्कृति, श्रम तथा अध्यागमन कानून, स्वास्थ्य र सुरक्षा, र कमाइ सुरक्षित रूपमा नेपाल पठाउने विषय पर्छन्। एक पटक तालिम लिएर गएको कामदार सोही मुलुक जाँदा फेरि तालिम लिनुपर्दैन। कामदारले कल्याणकारी कोषमा तीन वर्षसम्मको करार भए रु. १,५०० र तीन वर्षभन्दा बढीको करार भए रु. २,५०० जम्मा गर्नुपर्छ। Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Rule 20(1)-(2), PDF p. 13; Rule 24 (as amended by the third amendment), PDF p. 15
• If a worker who went abroad with labour approval dies during the contract or within one year after it ends, the next of kin may apply to the Foreign Employment Board within one year of the death; if the claim is valid the Board pays Rs 1 million from the Welfare Fund (amount set by the sixth amendment). A worker who is disabled or seriously ill can claim up to Rs 700,000 on an expert committee's recommendation, paid within seven days of the recommendation. Where neither applies, the Board may pay a one-off Rs 25,000. Applications can also be made through the local government, which must forward them within seven days, and money is paid into a bank account. The Board also helps carry a worker's body from the international airport to the home address.श्रम स्वीकृति लिई वैदेशिक रोजगारमा गएको कामदारको करार अवधिमा वा करार सकिएको एक वर्षभित्र मृत्यु भएमा नजिकको हकवालाले मृत्यु भएको एक वर्षभित्र वैदेशिक रोजगार बोर्डमा निवेदन दिन सक्छ; व्यहोरा मनासिब देखिए बोर्डले कल्याणकारी कोषबाट रु. १० लाख दिन्छ (यो रकम छैटौँ संशोधनले तोकेको हो)। अङ्गभङ्ग वा गम्भीर बिरामी भएका कामदारले विशेषज्ञ समितिको सिफारिसमा रु. ७ लाखसम्म पाउन सक्छन्, जुन सिफारिस आएको सात दिनभित्र दिनुपर्छ। यी सुविधा नपाउनेलाई बोर्डले एकमुष्ठ रु. २५ हजार दिन सक्छ। निवेदन स्थानीय तहमार्फत पनि दिन सकिन्छ र स्थानीय तहले सात दिनभित्र बोर्डमा पठाउनुपर्छ; रकम बैङ्क खातामा जम्मा गरिन्छ। कामदारको शव अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विमानस्थलबाट घरसम्म पुर्‍याउन पनि बोर्डले सहयोग गर्छ। Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Rule 28(1)-(8) (incl. 28(2) amended by the sixth amendment) and Rule 28क, PDF pp. 17-19
• Ninety per cent of the cash deposits that licensed agencies place with the Department is kept in fixed deposits at commercial banks. Seventy-five per cent of the interest goes to the Welfare Fund and 25 per cent to a separate Foreign Employment Business Fund, which may be used only to build agencies' business capacity, for welfare work, or for study and research on foreign employment, under criteria set by the Ministry.इजाजतपत्रवालाले विभागमा राखेको नगद धरौटीको ९० प्रतिशत रकम वाणिज्य बैङ्कको मुद्दती खातामा राखिन्छ। त्यसको ब्याजको ७५ प्रतिशत कल्याणकारी कोषमा र २५ प्रतिशत छुट्टै वैदेशिक रोजगार व्यवसाय कोषमा जान्छ। व्यवसाय कोषको रकम मन्त्रालयले बनाएको मापदण्डअनुसार इजाजतपत्रवालाको व्यावसायिक क्षमता बढाउन, कल्याणकारी काम वा वैदेशिक रोजगारसम्बन्धी अध्ययन अनुसन्धानमा मात्र खर्च गर्न सकिन्छ। Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Rule 25(1)-(5), PDF pp. 15-16

Where does it conflict with other laws?

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