Nepal, April 30 -- The mandatory requirement for licensed manpower companies to send at least 100 workers abroad annually has been removed. This provision, along with several others, was amended during the revision of the Foreign Employment Act.

On April 2, 2019, the Ministry of Labour, Employment, and Social Security amended the Foreign Employment Act to introduce a provision that would cancel the licenses of manpower companies that failed to send at least 100 workers annually for two consecutive years. In response, manpower business operators protested and lobbied for the removal of this provision.

The provision was amended through the "Bill to Amend Some Nepal Acts." This bill, which includes changes to the Foreign Employment Act and...