Labour Relations

How to find out quickly how the industrial relations in Nepal have been changing in recent years ? The answer would be: go into the morgue of a newspaper office and shift through the pages.

But a book jointly published recently by Industrial Relations Forum and Friedrich-Naumann Foundations Promises to save you the trouble. As a collections of newspaper and magazine articles by Dr. Narayan Manandhar published as early as 1998 and as recently as March 2001, "Labour Relations: Problems and Issues in Nepal", should give you a fairly accurate picture of the trends and issue in this field

Divided in eleven parts dealing separately on different facets of employment and labour-management relations the 194 pages [179 + 15 (annexure)] paperback also includes seven case studies on three topics: Strike in RNAC (Public Sector Company), 10% service charge (a hotel industry problem still unresolved) and Action Research on Social Dialogue (an ILO project launched in South Asia and Vietnam simultaneously to promote social dialogue at the enterprise level).

And the attraction of the anthology is in that Dr. Manandhar was involved personally in almost all of the situations he has written about. As the Executive Director of Industrial Relations Forum (IRF), the author's job is to remain constantly in touch with the developments in labour - related issues.

Despite having gone through the articles when they were first published in the newspapers and magazines from where they are reprinted, the reader finds himself/herself now on a coign of vantage of history, and the fresh reading is to give a new insight into the same issue. The added feature of the collections is that the information and statistics in the articles are updated, as the author mentions in his preface to the book.

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