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UAE’s Transguard Group lays off 2,500 Nepalis citing coronavirus



KATHMANDU: As many as 2,479 Nepali people working with the Transguard Group of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have lost their jobs.

The company laid off such a huge number of Nepali migrant workers citing coronavirus pandemic, said Nepali Embassy based in the UAE.

It supplies security guards to various companies operating in the UAE.

Almost 12,000 Nepali people had been working in various places under this company in the UAE, according to the Embassy.

This is the largest number of Nepali migrant workers to have been laid off ever by a single company in the UAE.

Publish Date : 13 July 2020 06:27 AM

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