Wishing you all a Happy and Prosperous Tihar, the festival of lights and happiness! Please note that the GEFONT office will remain closed from 31 October to 4 November for the festival holiday. In case of emergency, please contact Laxman Sharma, Secretary General, at +977-98510-80860.

A virtual meeting was held between the Publicity and Publication Department and GEFONT Provincial Presidents on the subject of improving the publicity of GEFONT on August 6.

Addressing the meeting, President Binod Shrestha shed light on the policies of GEFONT in terms of publicity and publication and the coordinating role between the provincial committee and the department.

Vice President and Department Head Jitendra Shrestha said that the role of publicity is integral to further strengthen the trade union movement being led by GEFONT.

In the virtual meeting, Publicity and Publication Department Secretary Mahendralal Shrestha gave clarification on the role of the provinces in the work to be done in the coming days.

On that occasion, the GEFONT Province Presidents gave brief information and suggestions regarding the situation in their hand.

178 employees working in the Lumbini Development Fund have been registered in the Social Security Fund.

For the past 3 years, the General Federation of Nepalese Trade Unions (GEFONT) has been taking initiatives to enlist the workers employed on contracts in the Lumbini Development Fund in the contribution-based Social Security Fund. After prolonged effort, Lumbini Development Fund has finally started enlisting workers and collecting funds from August 2024.
 

Nepal Street Vendors' Union (NEST) Thela Bazar Unit Bhimdatta Municipal Committee has submitted a letter of attention regarding management of workplace in Bhimdatta Municipality.

In the attention letter submitted on the 4th of August, 9 issues including the continuation of the halted building process of Thela Bazar, management of toilets, registration of self-employed workers, confiscation of goods of self-employed workers by the city police, and stopping of house arrests are mentioned.
 

The Thirteenth Annual Meeting and Seventh Session of the National Beauticians’ Union of Nepal Amarsingh Unit Committee (Pokhara) was held on August 2nd at Buddha Chowk in Pokhara with the main slogan of safe and dignified employment, rights of beauticians.

The aforementioned 7th convention, which was held with the coordinator of GEFONT Parliamentary and Local Level Mina Gurung as the chief guest, elected a committee of 11 people under the presidency of Tika Ale.

In the program chaired by Dipu Thapa, GEFONT National Committee Member and NABUN Representative Council Chief Suman Gurung, GEFONT Gandaki Deputy Secretary and Women's Committee President Sangita Pandey and NABUN Central Member Nur Gurung were guests.
 

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.