The General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) has published a fact sheet with information about Nepali workers who have gone abroad for employment in the past through a press conference at the GEFONT hall yesterday on the occasion of International Migrant Workers' Day on December 18 with the main slogan "Regular Contribution to Social Security - Protection of Workers' Rights".

While publishing the fact sheet, GEFONT President Binod Shrestha said that December 18 has been celebrated as International Migrant Workers' Day as a day to honor the contribution of workers who have gone abroad for employment around the world and raise their voices to protect their rights. This year, on December 18, GEFONT will organize various programs in the country and abroad with the slogan "Regular Contribution to Social Security, Protection of Workers' Rights". President Shrestha said that GEFONT has been demanding employment with fair wages inside the country itself for years, and that the vision of making foreign employment a matter of choice instead of compulsion, remains.

President Shrestha informed in a press conference that GEFONT, which is active in all destinations from Korea to Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, has been moving forward with the slogan ‘Where there are workers, there is GEFONT’ along with a campaign to organize migrant workers in Europe and America through the GEFONT Support Group since this year, and that the GEFONT Support Group in America has started its activities. Due to the mandatory social security contribution system for workers going for foreign employment, 1,300,1078 workers have been listed with their contributions. But, since their contributions are not regular, the workers themselves and their families have been deprived of the benefits available under the fund’s schemes. Therefore, GEFONT will change the slogan ‘Mission to Million’ adopted at its 8th general assembly to the “Mission to Million - with Regular Contribution” starting this year. GEFONT officials and secretariat were present at the press conference, which was moderated by GEFONT General Secretary Laxman Sharma.