Govt
files review
petition
against SC’s
order to
adjust
employee
salaries
(rep
27/08/2024)
ANFA
increases
salary of
Nepali
football
players by Rs
12,000 (kh
27/08/2024), ANFA
faces backlash
for hiking
General
Secretary’s
salary to Rs
270,000 while
players
receive Rs
30,000 (kh
28/08/2024) [The performance of the official is at least ten times
greater than
that of the
athletes,
isn't it?
After all, he
has to make a
living
somehow!]
Why
Does A Good Salary Matter?, by Dwaipayan
Regmi (rn 22/06/2024)
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Report: 21.7% of industries fail to pay minimum
wage (kh 30/04/2024)
ecoding
the minimum wage debate : While the safety of
the working class should always remain a top
priority, haphazardly increasing the minimum
wage can have several unintended consequences,
by Anjila Shrestha (nlt 06/09/2023)
Minimum
wage for workers raised to Rs 17,300 (kh
18/08/2023)
Jhapa
tea estate workers demand hike in wages (kh
05/08/2023)
Tea
estate workers begin protest for increment in
wages : The tea estate owners have not increased
the daily wages in four years, citing losses
incurred during the Covid-19 pandemic and the
ongoing recession, post-Covid, by Arjun
Rajbanshi (kp 01/08/2023)
NTUC
demand minimum wage of workers be determined
without delay (rep 28/07/2023)
Govt
revising minimum wage rate of workers from the
new FY 2023/24 (rep 17/07/2023)
Wages
of trekking workers increase (ht 21/06/2023)
Govt
prepares to raise minimum wage of workers
(ae 20/06/2023)
Wage
talks likely to be tough with economy in
recession : The unions have demanded that
industrial workers be paid on a par with first
level office helper in the civil service, by
Pawan Pandey (kp 09/06/2023)
Doctor
fees could go up for second time in two years :
In February 2021 the Nepal Medical Association
had almost doubled the fees, by Arjun Poudel
(kp 03/05/2023)
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) |