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Kazakhstan should aim to join top developed countries - leader

Kazakhstan needs to achieve a 60,000-dollar per capita mark, in order to join the list of 30 top developed countries, Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said.

Presidential Decree appoints Gulshara Abdykalikova as Deputy Prime Minister of Kazakhstan

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed the Decree "On Appointment Gulshara Abdykalikova as Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Kazakhstan", the press office of the Presidential Administration informs.

New bill on trade unions to meet international standards – Kazakhstan’s Labour Ministry

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population is drafting a new bill on trade unions.

Kazakhstan focuses attention on child labour

On October 29, Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of Population hosted a roundtable meeting that discussed the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.

Independent evaluation of the ILO's strategy on occupational safety and health: Workers and enterprises benefit from improved safety and...

Volume II is accesible online only and contains annexes 3,4 which are case studies on Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia and Viet Nam

Child Labour in rural Kazakhstan: Baseline survey results in Almaty and South Kazakhstan oblasts. Report. ILO-IPEC, 2013

The survey was conducted in October 2011 in selected settlements of Almaty and South- Kazakhstan oblasts and aimed to provide estimates of the magnitude of the child labour phenomenon in cotton, tobacco and vegetable production, profiling child...

Trade union training on how to conduct negotiations with employers in Karaganda, Kazakhstan

How to keep disagreements from escalating into riots? Experts from the International Labour Organization – Magnus Berge, Chief Technical Adviser of the ILO’s Bureau for Workers' Activities (ACTRAV), and Sergeyus Glovackas, ILO Moscow Senior...

Kazakhstan’s Labour Ministry makes efforts to refine minimum subsistence level

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Labour and Social Protection set up a working group of national and foreign experts that will develop initiatives towards refining a minimum subsistence level.

Youth unemployment rate is 5.9% in Kazakhstan: Ministry of Labor

Cabinet to discuss implementation of program on single-industry towns development

Today, the Government meeting is to discuss the implementation of the program on development of single-industry towns, spokesman of the Central Communications Service Altay Abibullayev said yesterday at a briefing, Primeminister.kz informs.

Trade unions bill discussed between Kazakhstan and the U.S.

Head of the Kazakh Ministry of Labor and Social Protection Tamara Duisenova met with Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the U.S. to Kazakhstan Kenneth J. Fairfax , the press service of the authority reports.

Trade union leaders meet to discuss informal employment

The Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC-PERC) in cooperation with the ILO organized a subregional meeting for trade union leaders focusing on informal employment. The meeting took place in Kyrgyzstan’s...

Combating Child Labour in Central Asia: Commitment becomes Action (PROACT CAR - Phase III) (Final Evaluation Summary)

Project: RER/11/51/FRG Evaluation Consultants: Inna Bayda (Ukraine), Katoen Faromuzova (Tajikistan), Nurgul Alybaeva (Kyrgyzstan)

Nazarbayev approved law on pension provision in Kazahstan

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed the Law "On pension provision in the Republic of Kazakhstan" and "On amendments to some legislative acts on pension provision issues."

Tripartite partners in Kazakhstan sign memorandum of understanding on HIV/AIDS and the World of Work

In May tripartite partners in Kazakhstan – representatives of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, the Ministry of Health, the Federation of Trade Unions of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the National Economic Chamber of Kazakhstan Atameken...

12 days against exploitation of child labour campaign ends in North Kazakhstan region

The annual national information campaign “12 days against exploitation of child labour” aimed at raising public awareness about the problem of child labour ended in Petropavlovsk. By tradition one of the main organizers of the campaign in the North...

Kazakh leader sends back new pension bill to parliament for revision

ILO steps up cooperation in youth employment with Azerbaijan

On May 30 Azerbaijan’s Labour and Social Protection Minister Fizuli Alekperov met with ILO Moscow Senior Employment Specialist Olga Koulaeva to discuss the implementation of ILO’s new project Partnerships for Youth Employment in the Commonwealth of...

Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of...

Signing of the Agreement of Cooperation between the Federation of Trade Unions of Kyrgyzstan and the Confederation of Trade Unions of Georgia (GTUC) took place on the 29th of May in Tbilisi. It coincided with the first day of the work of the...

Global unemployment and integrated solutions: panel session at the VI Astana Economic Forum

Global unemployment and integrated solutions were in the focus of a panel session that took place in the framework of the VI Astana Economic Forum in Kazakhstan’s capital on May 22-24.