KATHMANDU: The Foreign Employment Tribunal, which was established in 2066 BS, has settled the highest number of cases in the current fiscal year.

The tribunal settled 73.46 percent of the cases this year. Registrar at Tribunal Anandaraj Panta said 227 cases were finalized in the current fiscal year of the total 309 cases registered in the current and past fiscal years.

So far, the Tribunal has completed 2,498 cases. In the last five years, the case settlement rate of the Tribunal is above 50 percent though its performance was affected due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the fiscal year 2076/077 BS.

Established as per the Foreign Employment Act, the Tribunal oversees the cases related to foreign employment crimes.