Saparbayev: labor rights of 23 thousand Kazakhstan citizens are protected

The Minister of labor and social protection of population of RK Berdibek Saparbayev told about what measures are taken in Kazakhstan to ensure the labor rights of workers.

"Monitoring and control of compliance with labor legislation is conducted. For this purpose, a Labor risk map is used, in which enterprises with frequent violations are recorded. With its help, in 2019, more than 5 thousand violations were eliminated in 3.9 thousand enterprises inspected by the labor Inspectorate. As a result, the rights of more than 23 thousand workers were protected, who received 3 billion tenge of wage arrears," the Minister said during the reporting meeting with the population.

In 2019, a Plan of measures to prevent labor conflicts and measures to ensure safety and labor protection is implemented.

"More than 1.7 thousand enterprises have implemented international standards, more than 6 thousand production objects have been certified. Internal control at the enterprises is carried out by about 15 thousand production councils. As a result, there is a decrease in industrial injuries. For 5 months of 2019, the number of accidents was reduced to 10.2%, the number of victims, including those with fatal outcomes, decreased," he said.

The work on creating decent work conditions has been strengthened. In 2019, the Ministry together with social partners and akimats conducts large-scale explanatory work under the auspices of "Safe work". The implementation of a new Road map to reduce industrial injuries and jobs with harmful and dangerous working conditions is beginning.

The system of social partnership is also actively developing.

"In order to prevent the reduction and violation of workers' rights 122.4 thousand memorandums on mutual cooperation has been signed between akimats and enterprises of the regions. More than 96.4% of large and medium-sized enterprises, 39.9% of small enterprises were covered by collective agreements. Thus, an additional social package is provided for the employees of these enterprises," Saparbayev pointed out.

In addition, the agreements on providing with additional sponsorship and charitable assistance with many large enterprises, representatives of the business community were achieved.

"This year, 458 memorandums with enterprises in the regions on support of socially vulnerable groups of the population, including large families for total amount more than 38.3 billion tenge were signed. In order to provide with housing low-income families with children and orphans, the issue of building family-type hostels and rental housing is being solved. Since the beginning of this year, large families received 385 apartments at the expense of sponsors," the Minister concluded.