Resources: Kazakhstan

  1. Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan to have common labour market soon

    27 October 2010

  2. Kazakh leader urges small business development

    28 September 2010

  3. Tripartite meeting on Labour Administration Facing the Jobs Crisis

    22 September 2010

  4. Labour migration and child labour in Kazakhstan

    13 August 2010

    How to protect labour migrants’ rights and prevent child labour? These issues topped the agenda of a roundtable meeting focusing on working conditions of migrants employed in agriculture in the Almaty region.

  5. “Employment of migrant workers in the informal economy in Kazakhstan”

    25 June 2010

    The study Employment of migrant workers in the informal economy in Kazakhstan: a study of Southern Kazakhstan has been recently published within the framework of the ILO-EU project “Towards Sustainable Partnerships for the Effective Governance of Labour Migration”. The paper analyses the employment and living conditions of migrants in the informal economy and identifies options for increasing decent work opportunities. In conclusion, the study makes policy and legislative recommendations for reducing irregular employment, reducing the size of the informal economy, and increasing the protection of rights for migrant workers within the context of well-managed labour migration. The study included a representative sample survey of irregular migrant workers in South Kazakhstan. Data collection was made in 2008.

  6. Conference on Decent Work Country Programme priorities

    11 December 2009

    The sub-regional conference to set up the Decent Work priorities and anti-crisis response in five CIS countries – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation and Tajikistan -- was organized by the ILO Moscow Office and the International Training Centre, Turin, in Baku on December 10-11.

  7. Report on the Almaty Conference, 2009

    08 December 2009

  8. Almaty Ministerial Declaration, 2009

    08 December 2009

  9. UN Ministerial Conference meets to review social policy options for a region, hard hit by the global economic crisis

    07 December 2009

    The global economic and financial crisis has affected all countries, and Kazakhstan was no exception. In early 2009 the country faced a difficult situation on the labour market, particularly in oil- and gas-producing regions, Gulshara Abdykalikova, Kazakhstan's Minister of Labour and Social Protection of the Population told participants and guests at the opening of the UN Ministerial Conference on the Social Impact of the Economic Crisis in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Turkey.

  10. The Human Development Impact of the Global Crisis in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, and the CIS

    07 December 2009