On behalf of the Akim of Almaty, payment for youth practice will be additionally increased from the local budget by 10 monthly notional units
Thus, the salary for youth practice will be 122.5 thousand tenge (40 monthly notional units), 335.3 million tenge has been allocated for this by the Almaty Akimat. Maksat Kikimov, deputy akim of Almaty, announced this at an online briefing of the Regional Communications Service.
According to the Rules for the Organization of Social Workplaces for Persons with Disabilities, payment of a subsidy is expected in the amount of 50% of the salary established by the employer. To reduce the burden on business and the non-governmental sector, those who attract persons with disabilities, on behalf of the akim, will be subsidized from the local budget 80% of the salary, or 92 thousand tenge (91,890 tenge).
“Over the past year, unemployment has been reduced from 5.3% to 5.1%. With the plan set by the Ministry of Labor of 51.7 thousand, 55.5 thousand new jobs were created during the year. Work to reduce unemployment will be continued,” the deputy akim said.
This year, within the framework of 7 national projects (11 administrators of budget programs, 57 projects), it is planned to create 13,267 jobs: The National Project "Quality Education" - 2393 units (7 projects), "Strong regions - the driver of the country's development" - 1205 units (24 projects), "Development of Entrepreneurship" - 9223 units (23 projects), "Sustainable economic growth" - 387 units (3 projects), "Ulttyk ruhani zhangyru" - 59 units.
Within the framework of private initiatives, 3 administrators will implement 20 projects with the creation of 500 jobs: Tourism Department - 258 units, Green Economy - 198 units, Sports - 44 units.
Business entities in 8 districts of the city plan to create 30,994 jobs:
Alatau district - 3800 units, Almaly - 4190, Auezov - 4500, Bostandyk - 4104, Zhetysu - 3500, Medeu - 3700, Nauryzbai - 3400, Turksib - 3800.
In general, thanks to these measures, the task was set to create at least 50 thousand jobs.
In addition, on behalf of Almaty Mayor Bakhytzhan Sagintayev, vocational training of young people and retraining of the unemployed with subsequent employment will be strengthened.
To do this, curricula for short-term training of the unemployed will be revised (term - 3 months).
“There will be more practice, we are moving away from inefficient standard training with the exception of hours for teaching English, information technology for working professions. The training will be practice-oriented (teaching theory in the course of practice), aimed at teaching skills,” M. Kikimov emphasized.
Additionally, as part of the National Plan for the Development of Entrepreneurship, a new mechanism for on-the-job training from employers will be launched with subsidized payment of 20 monthly notional units (61,260 tenge) for a period of 3 months (with subsequent employment).
Since the current year, the salary for youth practice has been increased from 25 to 30 monthly notional units (91,890 tenge). Given that this is not enough, on behalf of the akim, from the local budget, we will additionally increase the payment by another 10 monthly notional units, so the salary will be 122.5 thousand tenge (40 monthly notional units), for which we have allocated 335.3 million tenge.
The deputy akim of Almaty also said that if earlier, youth practice provided for 6 months of employment, now, in connection with the amendments to the Rules of the organization, the direction will be carried out for up to 1 year.
Starting this year, for working people with disabilities, the amount of subsidies for social jobs will be increased from 63,000 to 92,000 tenge (405 million tenge was allocated for 9 monthly notional units, or 28,000 tenge).