Labor desk at TIA been removed, workers will no longer have to stand in line

KATHMANDU: MARCH. 10 – The ‘labor desk’ at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has been removed by the government. After a complaint was filed against workers going abroad in the name of stamping, Labor, Employment, and Social Security Minister Krishna Kumar Shrestha decided to remove the labor desk at the airport.

Following complaints of unnecessary worker harassment, the Ministry of Labor, Employment, and Social Security removed the labor desk.

Ministry officials, including Minister Shrestha, arrived at the international airport on Wednesday and removed the labor desk. According to Minister Shrestha, with the advent of the Online Information System (FEMIS), there is no need for labor desk at the airport. Now the employees of the immigration department will check the labor approval.

It was the rule that workers going on leave for foreign employment had to go to the labor desk, and the boarding process could begin only after the desk signed it. Workers will now be able to enter the airport from any gate without going through the labor desk.

Prem Nath Thakur, the airport’s general manager, stated that the entry was made through all three gates in order to expedite the workers’ departure.

The Department of Foreign Employment intends to establish an information center at the airport. The center will help troubled workers.

Minister Shrestha has urged Health and Population Minister Birodh Khatiwada to discontinue the process of coronavirus PCR testing at the airport.