Nepali workers in malaysia

Nepal government has stopped issuing labor permits to those migrant workers whose air tickets and visa fees are not borne by their employers.

Following this, the Nepali embassy in Malaysia has implemented its zero-cost migration policy starting July 5th 2015.Nepalese Department of Foreign Labour Employment only issues permits to migrant workers whose applications are attached with letters by employers ready to pay for their air tickets and visa fees, which has been attested by the embassy in Malaysia.Nepali Labour Minister Tek Bahadur Gurung had earlier told Nepali Times that the zero-cost policy was to end exploitation of migrant workers.“Well-established employer companies are always ready to pay for migrant workers’ air tickets and visa fees. Only those companies that do not pay good salaries are not ready to provide these facilities, and we do not want them to hire our migrant workers.” he said.He also said that this move will stop the recruitment agents from “fleecing” the poor and helpless Nepalese migrant workers

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