Kathmandu — Nepal and Saudi Arabia have agreed to sign a bilateral labor agreement during a meeting held in Riyadh between Minister for Labor, Employment and Social Security Sharat Singh Bhandari and his Saudi counterpart Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdullah Al Rajhi.

The final draft will be finalized after both sides complete the legal process and the date for signing the agreement. Saudi Arabia has proposed to Nepal to sign agreements related to general labor, domestic labor and the skills certification program. Out of these three, the draft of the labor agreement related to the recruitment of general labor has been finalized.

Currently, around 400 thousands Nepalese workers are working in Saudi Arabia, excluding domestic workers.