A discussion program was held on August 3rd in the assembly hall of GEFONT located in Hetauda under the organisation of Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) Makwanpur District Coordination Committee.

The chief guest of the program Binod Shrestha, president of the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT), covered the questions raised by the participants in the discussion and shed light on the current problems and solutions in the labour sector, along with the path to be taken by GEFONT and related unions.

President Shrestha said that labour cutback, complexity of contract implementation, implementation of labour law, effective implementation of contribution-based social security are the challenges in the current labour market and there is a necessity to organise a movement in a new way to solve these problems.

WHIN Central President Anand Thami, Secretary Geeta Bhandari, GEFONT Bagmati Province President Ramhari Nepal, WHIN Central Member Binod Lamichhane and other leaders participated in the meeting hosted by Vishwanath Sanjel under the chairmanship of WHIN Makwanpur District Coordination Committee President Keshav Adhikari.

General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT)-affiliated National Beauticians’ Union of Nepal (NABUN) Makwanpur district meeting has reconstituted the district committee.

NABUN Central Secretary Sujana Joshi was the chief guest of the meeting held at Hetauda on August 3rd, in which a 9-member district committee was formed under the presidency of Karuna Adhikari.

Similarly, the Hetauda sub-metropolitan committee has also reconstituted a 13-member committee under the presidency of Samjhana Sitaula on the same day.
 

The second session of Whole Industry Trade Union Nepal (WHIN) Polymers Pvt. Ltd. held on August 3 has elected a 7-member working committee under the leadership of Krishna Raut.

In the convention held under the chief hospitality of WHIN Central President Anand Thami, the guests including Central Secretary Geeta Bhandari and Central Member Manoj Chaudhary gave their greetings, and WHIN Central Secretary Gita Bhandari informed that Manoj Ghimire hosted oath taking ceremony of the newly elected working committee.

The General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) has awarded Rs. 130,000 as compensation to Rita Rana Magar of Airawati Rural Municipality-7, Pyuthan from the agent who scammed her in the matter of foreign employment.

The local agent Om Prakash Singh had taken the victim to Kuwait on a visit visa 2 months prior by exploiting the greed of free visa and free ticket.

She filed a complaint against the agent after the agent demanded a large sum of money to return the victim, who fell ill after regular 18-hour work as a domestic worker, to Nepal.

Janak B.K. from GEFONT Migrant Desk has informed Shramik Khabar that an amount equal to 1 month's salary and flight ticket has been provided at the initiative of GEFONT.
 

General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) affiliated Central Union of Painters, Plumbers, Electro and Construction Workers-Nepal (CUPPEC) has rescued 70 workers who had been stranded for about 1 month and sent them home.

CUPPEC Nepal held the rescue operation after it was reported that Rashula Ali, the contractor of Horizon Apartment located in Tokha, had not provided safe housing and ration for the workers.

A team including CUPPEC Central Vice President Yogendra Sharma, District Labor Department Member Tek Narayan Yadav and GEFONT Tokha Municipal Committee President Leela Bahadur Basnet had coordinated with the relevant parties.
 

The meeting of Organization of Marketing Management and Sales Workers (OMMSW) Nepal, Narayani was held at Narayangarh and the meeting of Rapti was held at Dang on the 27th of July.

Central president Surya Parajuli was the chief guest at Narayani's meeting.

Sabin Lamichhane chaired the program in the presence of Deputy General Secretary Janak Dhakal. The meeting has formed a 17-member Narayani branch committee under the presidency of Rambabu Ghimire.

Similarly, Central Secretary Bishnu Mahara was the chief guest at the meeting held in Dang. A 13-member Rapti branch committee was formed under the presidency of Bhim Bhusal from the program held in the presence of the state president Ganga Sagar Panthi.