The Department of Labour and Regional Labour Staff will be conducting workplace inspections from May 1 to June 11, 2023. While the labour inspections will cover various sectors, the focus of our inspections will be the construction sector,...
DoL-Announcement
Result of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) assessment
Coinciding with World Safety Day (28th April), the Department of Labour is pleased to announce the result of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) assessment that was conducted in the month of March & April, 2023. The top three companies were...
WORLD DAY FOR SAFETY & HEALTH AT WORK
Notification on Transferring Foreign Workers Between Employers & Worksites
Foreign Workers (FWs) play a crucial role in meeting our domestic workforce need, and it is imperative that they are treated with respect and given safe and supportive working conditions. FWs should be able to exercise their Rights and Duties as...
Notification by Department of Labour
The Department of Labour would like to inform employers and Foreign Workers' Recruitment Agents (FWRAs) that it has observed a concerning trend where foreign workers are permitted to exit the Port of Exit (POE) after completing immigration...
Notification on the Provident Fund
The Department of Labour would like to inform the concerned enterprises that as per Sections 225 and 226 of the Regulation on Working Conditions, 2022 employers and employees shall each contribute to the employees Provident Fund (PF) account on a...
Notification to the Employers on Transferring of Foreign Workers
Foreign workers play a crucial role in meeting our domestic workforce need, and it is imperative that they are treated with respect and given safe and supportive working conditions. It is also important to ensure that foreign workers are able to...
Executive Order with regard to the Regulations on Foreign Workers 2022
MoLHR will be collecting employee details through the Employer-Employee System in November and December 2022
As per the Labour and Employment Act of Bhutan, this is to notify all establishments in the country that the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) will be collecting employee details through the Employer-Employee System in November and...
Enabling of foreign workers work permit will be discontinued from 15 December, 2022
We would like to notify the general public that hereafter, the enabling of foreign workers work permit will be discontinued. The employers who failed to renew the work permit will be required to deport repatriate the foreign workers to their...