Challenges and Opportunities of Foreign Employment in Nepal

Though foreign employment helps to uplift the economic status of the nation, it has created different types of problems. There are several challenges and problems faced by the employees while departing from foreign countries and working there. It is necessary to minimize the challenges and problems faced by Nepalese employers in the foreign countries. Some of the challenges seen in the foreign employment are as follows:

1. The employees are forced to work for long hours without holidays and often paid no wages.

2. Mostly, the semi-skilled and unskilled workers go to the foreign countries so, they do not get job as per the contract.

3. Some of the manpower companies, agent and broker cheat the people. So, they do not get the offered jobs and treated as illegal immigrants. So, they are forced to leave the working countries.

4. The employees in foreign countries do not know the language which is necessary for mutual communication in working countries.

5. Some of the employees are mentally and physically tortured and sexually abused and exploited.

6. The workers are forced to work in low salary jobs.

7. The manpower companies charge a huge sum of money for the visa and other legal processing which forces the employees to sell the property to take the money on high interest.

8. The manpower companies do not train the employees about the laws of the working countries before going there which has created more possibility of imprisonment in the foreign countries.

9. The manpower companies or agent do not train the people to work safely, so that many employees are found dead in the foreign countries.

10. Many of the employees are forced to leave the working countries because of illegal visa and had to pay loan back which pushes them backward to move pathetic condition.