Active employment promotion measures
Professional training
- Citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan and unemployed persons have the right to vocational training once within two years.
- Vocational training includes professional training, retraining and advanced training and is carried out:
1) in educational organizations implementing educational training programs for technical and vocational, post-secondary education, training centers for employers who have the right to educational activities, in accordance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of education (hereinafter referred to as educational organizations) or at the workplace of the employer at the request of the employer;
2) on the Electronic Labor Exchange according to the list of required professions.
The procedure for organizing and financing vocational training is determined by the authorized state body.
- A referral for professional training is issued by a career center if:
1) it is impossible to find a suitable job due to the lack of necessary professional qualifications;
2) it is necessary to change the profession (specialty), occupation due to the lack of a job that meets professional skills;
3) the ability to perform work in the previous profession has been lost.
- Persons who have voluntarily stopped studying without a valid reason may be re-enrolled after one calendar year from the date of re-registration as unemployed, but not more than once.
Promotion of entrepreneurial initiative
- Certain categories of individuals, defined by the authorized state body, have the right to receive services to promote an entrepreneurial initiative.
- Assistance to an entrepreneurial initiative is provided by:
1) teaching the basics of entrepreneurship;
2) providing gratuitous grants for the implementation of new business ideas;
3) microcredit on a refundable basis.
- The procedure for organizing and financing measures to promote entrepreneurial initiative is determined by the authorized state body.
Organization of subsidized jobs
- The unemployed, students, and high school students who participate in jobs that do not harm their health or disrupt the learning process have the right to find employment in subsidized jobs.
- An employer creates subsidized jobs on a contractual basis with a career center, which cannot be used to create vacancies for permanent jobs.
Subsidized jobs are not created for heavy jobs, jobs with harmful and/or dangerous working conditions.
- An agreement on the organization of subsidized jobs between an employer and a labor mobility center is concluded through an Electronic Labor Exchange.
- Subsidized jobs are organized to assist in the acquisition of initial work experience in the acquired profession (specialty) or the preservation of existing work skills.
- Labor Mobility Center:
1) determines the supply and demand for the organization of subsidized jobs;
2) approves the list of organizations that have submitted an application for the creation of subsidized jobs and the number of jobs to be organized.
- Transfer to subsidized jobs is allowed only with the consent of the persons specified in paragraph 1 of this Article, taking into account their state of health, age, professional and other individual characteristics.
If the person referred to in paragraph 1 of this article has not reached the age of eighteen, his transfer to subsidized jobs is allowed with the consent of his legal representatives.
- Persons who voluntarily and without a valid reason have stopped working in subsidized workplaces are removed from the register as unemployed and may re-participate in active employment promotion measures only after three months from the date of re-registration as unemployed.
- Persons employed in subsidized jobs are subject to the labor legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- The list of subsidized jobs, requirements for persons employed in subsidized jobs, the amount and terms of subsidizing their wages are determined by the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
- The procedure for organizing subsidized jobs and subsidizing the wages of persons employed in subsidized jobs is determined by the authorized state body.