Labour Code of RK discussed at international conference in Astana

An international scientific conference on improvement of labour relations has taken place in Astana, at which a draft Labour Code has been reviewed, KZ-today has been advised in the press service of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection of RK.

The international scientific conference on improvement of labour relations as per the draft Labour Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan has been conducted to bring norms, regulating the labour relations, in compliance with international standards, the press service has stressed. According to the ministry press service, the conference participants have generally approved the draft Labour Code and made a number of remarks and propositions.

The draft Labour Code stipulates constitutional guarantees for a freedom of labour and a free choice of activities and professions. Principles banning forced labour have been fixed, as well as a workers right for labour conditions, complying with safety and hygienic requirements and for the wage payment without any discrimination.

Additional social guarantees on norms and payment of workers labour, their right for professional training and qualification improvement, state guarantees and employer's commitments on a worker's employment have been introduced.

The draft Labour Code contains a number of novelties. For instance, contents of an employment agreement have been amplified by provisions on a place of work and an agreement conclusion date. An employment agreement can include the following conditions on parties' consent: on trial of parties, on non-competition, on holding more than one job, on attestation of a worker, on educational leave, on qualification improvement. One of the novelties is an indexation of salaries by an employer in the order established by an agreement, a collective agreement, and employment agreement and (or) an employer's act, on the basis of results of an organisation's financial and economic activities with an account of the inflation level, fixed by normative legal acts for a given period.

Parliament deputies, experts from the International Labour Organisation, scientists from the Russian Federation, Ukraine, and Belarus, local scientists, jurists and economists, representatives of trade unions and employers, responsible workers of ministries and other authorities have participated in the conference work.