Kathmandu, April 7 -- The government is preparing to amend a provision in the Foreign Employment Act that requires recruiting agencies to send at least 100 workers abroad every year for two consecutive years to have their license renewed.

The contentious provision had become part of the law after Parliament passed the fifth amendment to the Foreign Employment Act (2007) in March last year. Recruiting agencies have long been lobbying against the provision saying it puts undue pressure on them to send workers abroad.

Now as the country reels under the impacts of Covid-19, the government is preparing to repeal the provision-the issue was discussed during the Cabinet meeting last week. An official at the Ministry of Labour, Employment and S...