Underpaid
Nepali nurses set their sights abroad : The monthly
salary of nurses in most private hospitals in Nepal is
in the range of Rs10,000 to Rs15,000, insiders say,
by Subin Adhikari (kp 02/02/2023)
Government
hikes salaries of judges and others left out in previous
announcement : The pay increase comes six months after
salaries of government employees were raised, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 21/01/2023)
Judges
dissatisfied with pay scale (ht 21/01/2023)
Who
gets the fattest check?, by Pratik Ghimire (ae
17/01/2023)
Govt
forms high-level salary commission (rep 23/08/2022)
Hefty
salary hike proposed for these five VVIPs! (rep
10/08/2022)
International
Workers’ Day: Daily wagers struggling to survive
(kh 01/05/2022)
PM
employment program: workers’ daily wage hiked, insurance
made compulsory (rep 20/01/2022)
Women
workers in Salyan get paid less than menAuthorities say
those found guilty of gender discrimination at workplace
can be penalised but they have received no such
complaints so far, by Biplab Maharhan (kp
02/08/2021)
Minimum
Wage For Private Workers Reaches 15,000 Per Month
(rn 17/07/2021)
Inclusion
Commission Chair Dr Timalsina for reviewing minimum wage
to labour (kh 13/07/2021)
Wage
gap between men and women persists: Report; The widest
difference is in the professional category where a male
worker earns Rs23,800 monthly compared to Rs12,000 for a
female, by Krishana Prasain (kp 17/06/2021)
Minimum
monthly wage of a worker to be increased to Rs 15,000
from next fiscal year: PM Oli (rep 02/05/2021), Minimum
montly wage of workers raised 11 per cent to Rs 15,000
(ht 04/05/2021)
40pc
salary increment sought for tourism workers (ht
24/03/2021)
HAN
signs new agreement with trade unions Monthly salary of
staffers further reduced to as low as Rs 2,000
(ht 28/01/2021)
Nepali’s
average monthly salary Rs 20,000 (kh 07/10/2020)
Equal
pay for equal play We must recognise the efforts of
women athletes and stop treating them unfairly (kp
25/09/2020)
Remuneration
dispute between employers, workers resolved (ht
30/07/2020)
Restaurants
to provide employees uniform pay: Restaurant workers
demand at least their basic salary, saying that the
decision to cut their salaries came unilaterally, by
Krishana Prasain (kp 26/07/2020)
Even
shut businesses to pay 50 per cent salary to workers
(ht 20/04/2020)
Constitutional
bench of Supreme Court repeals provincial laws for the
first time: The legislation, related to salaries that
local representatives were receiving, contradicted the
constitution, according to the bench, by Tika R.
Pradhan (kp 19/10/2019), ‘Constitution
amendment needed’: ‘It will be illogical to deprive
local level office bearers of their salaries’, by
Ram Kumar Kamat (ht 20/10/2019)
Salaries
remain the same, by Sukhdev Shah (rep 25/09/2019)
Retired
government employees see a rise in pensions thanks to
salary hike of incumbent staff: Government may have to
spend additional Rs1.3 billion to cover increased pay,
Pension Management Fund says, by Prithvi Man
Shrestha (kp 21/08/2019)
Women
construction workers: Organising for change: More and
more women construction workers are joining unions as
they help with claiming compensation; Women still earn
almost 30 percent less than men for the same
work, by Feyzi Ismail (kp 17/07/2019)
CBS
report brings to fore huge gender pay gap: Nepali women
earn 29 per cent less than equally educated men, by
Sujan Dhungana (ht 20/06/2019), Close
pay gap: The government must implement the laws strictly
and have all companies and organisations make public
data on male, female employment and the pay gap (ht
21/06/2019)
Govt
hikes salary of govt employees upto 20 pc (rep
30/05/2019)
Low
wages and ill-treatment make a bitter brew for tea
workers: Thousands of tea workers have gone on an
indefinite strike, casting shadows on the once lucrative
business, by Tsering D Gurung (kp 13/05/2019)
Basic
minimum wage eludes Nepali migrant workers, by Umesh
Poudel (ht 09/05/2019), Ensure
basic wages: Nepal govt must start fresh talks with
labour-receiving countries to guarantee basic wages to
Nepali migrant workers (ht 10/05/2019)
Panauti
initiatesmeasures
to address gender wage gap: The municipality introduces
a local law to bring uniformity in wages for men
and women from the start of the current fiscal
year, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 06/05/2019)
Only
22 percent of working-age women are employed in Nepal:
There is also gender pay gap and it must close, experts
say, by Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 02/05/2019)
Tea
factories agree to pay laborers minimum wage: Ask
government to fulfill their demands at the earliest,
by Bhim Chapagain (rep 17/04/2019)
Manahari
Rural Municipality ends gender bias on wages (ht
08/04/2019)
Workers
denied minimum wage, by Maheshwar Chamling Rai (rep
17/03/2019)
Fixing
a hole: Incremental changes to close the gender
wage gap are welcome (kp 12/03/2019)
Nepal’s
great income divide: Nepal's growing income disparity is
pushing the country towards instability and conflict,
by Ramesh Kumar (nt 22/02/2019)
No
extra work without extra allowances: Parliament staffers
(rep 13/12/2018)
Women
tea
estate workers form union: Male workers in tea factories
of Ilam and Panchthar get Rs 400 per day while women
workers get only Rs 300 (kp 08/12/2018)
Deny
staff basic pay at your peril, warns Bista (kp
07/12/2018)
Tea
industrialists seek amendment to Labor Act, by Bhim
Chapagain (rep 25/09/2018)
Nepal
Media Society rebukes ideal wage recommendation:
Umbrella body of media organisations terms the decision
uncalled for (kp 17/09/2018)
Allowance
cut affects lawmaking process in parliament, by
Ashok Dahal (rep 06/09/2018)
Tea
workers launch protest demanding implementation of minimum
wage, by Bhim Chapagain (rep 06/09/2018)
Tea
factories not paying minimum wage to laborers, by
Bhim Chapagain (rep 28/08/2018)
Men
and women to receive equal wages in Panauti, by
Madhusudhan Guragain (rep 17/07/2018)
Minimum
wage raised to Rs13,450 per month, by Rajesh Khanal
and Dev Narayan Sah (kp 10/07/2018), Labourer’s
dilemma: The increase in the minimum wage will make only
a slight difference, if at all (kp 11/07/2018)
FNJ
wants Rs 40k as minimum wage for journalists (kp
09/07/2018)
Salary
of workers to be paid compulsorily through banking
channel (ht 29/05/2018)
‘Govt
preparing to raise wages’ (ht 01/05/2018), Govt
to
revise minimum wage of workers: The revision is in line
with the Labour Act-2017 which says that minimum wages
of workers should be revised every two years, by
Sanjeev Giri (kp 02/05/2018)
Finance
Ministry okays pay for local representatives, by
Prithvi Man Shrestha (kp 11/10/2017)
Salary,
wage indices up 14.4 percent (rep 20/09/2017)
Elected
local
reps may not get fixed salaries (kp 10/06/2017)
NAC
to
hike pilot pay to stem turnover rate: If the proposal is
approved, a senior pilot will earn up to Rs450,000 per
month in salary and allowances, said ministry officials
(kp 09/06/2017)
Bill
proposes
pay, perks for elected representatives, by Prithvi
Man Shrestha (kp 20/05/2017)
Nurses
being paid nominal salaries by private hospitals: NNC;
Montlhly pay of nurses a little more than Rs 3,000,
by Bishnu Prasad Aryal (rep 28/01/2017)
Gender
pay
gap: What we can learn from global practices to reduce
inequality in our workforce, by Tara Kanel (kp
15/01/2017)
50pc
incentive
boost for Law Services employees (kp 06/01/2017)
Hike
in civil sector salary drives up salary, wages indices:
Private sector remunerations continue to remain
stagnant: NRB data (rep 31/12/2016)
Average
salary
goes up 14.4pc (kp 20/11/2016)
25
per
cent salary hike for postal service staff (ht
23/09/2016)
Panels
formed
to implement minimum wage for journalists (ht
05/09/2016), Journos’
minimum
wage: Media operators
express concern (kp 10/09/2016)
Up
to
20 per cent salary hike on cards for civil servants,
by Pushpa Raj Acharya (kp 25/05/2016)
NMS
rider
for following minimum wage rule: Government must first
meet 12 conditions: Media society chair (ht
24/05/2016)
Journos'
wage:
Media orgs object to cabinet decision (kp
07/05/2016)
Security
guards
warn of protests (kp 10/04/2016)
Construction
workers’
wages soar nearly 13pc (kp 30/08/2015)
Poor
living
wage of women in informal sector discussed: Wages of
women in informal sector is so low that they are not
sufficient to sustain livelihood (ht 21/06/2015)
Male-female
wage
disparity widens (kp 01/02/2015) |