EPS Nepal 2008 Employment Permit System & Illigal Nepali Workers
Nepal, Korea to renew EPS on Jan 18 REPUBLICA KATHMANDU Jan 13: Nepal and South Korea are renewing labor agreement under Employment Permit System (EPS) on January 18. Minister for Labor and Transport Management Mohammad Aftab Alam and Secretary at Ministry of Labor and Transport Management (MoLTM) Baburam Acharya are soon leaving for South Korea to renew the EPS pact that was first signed on July 23, 2007. While renewing the EPS agreement, we will request the Korean government to provide more job opportunities for Nepali youths in Korean enterprises, Acharya told myrepublica.com on Wednesday. The government has already renewed the agreement two times for six months after the pact expired on July 23, 2009. The Korean government introduced EPS in 2004 to pave the way for its domestic employers to hire foreign workers to fulfill increasing demand of workers in different sectors. Korea has so far signed agreements with 15 countries –most of them Asian - to hire workers under the EPS. Korea has signed EPS with Vietnam, Mongolia, Thailand, China, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Cambodia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Kyrgyzstan and East Timor. Recognizing Nepal´s effective sending process, the South Korean government recently rewarded Nepal as the best sending countries under the EPS. The Korean government had honored Nepal for reducing the sending period after the labor contracts were signed and for forging meaningful coordination with HRD Korea …
Lubao Employment Program (ILO Study tour in Lubao, Pampanga, Philippines)
On March 5, 2010, the International Labour Organization, with funding from the Government of South Korea conducted a Study Tour to the Philippines. Of all the Municipalities in the Philippines, the ILO chose Lubao as point of reference of the study due largely to its success in Labour migration, particularly in the EPS Korea. Participants to the study were Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Indonesia and Timor Leste.