Press release 4th Session of the Sectoral Commission on Social Partnership and Regulation of Social and Labor Relations of the Oil and Gas Industry

On December 7, 2018 in the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan chaired by Vice-Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan Akchulakov B.U. the 4th meeting of the Sectoral Commission on Social Partnership and Regulation of Social and Labor Relations of the Oil and Gas Industry was held.

Representatives of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, NHE “Atameken”, industry associations of workers and the employer of the “Kazenergy Association”, industry trade unions, as well as representatives of oil and gas enterprises participated in this meeting.

Following the meeting of the Sectoral Commission, the following decisions were unanimously adopted.:

The Plan of Measures to create safe working conditions and reduce industrial injuries in the oil and gas, oil refining and petrochemical industries was approved. The adoption of this document will allow minimizing or eliminating cases of occupational injuries at oil and gas enterprises.

In pursuance of the instructions of the Head of State to increase the minimum wage by 1.5 times from January 1, 2019 - from 28 to 42 thousand tenge, given in the message “Growth of Welfare of Kazakhstanis: Improving Incomes and Quality of Life”, the issue of raising wages for low-paid workers.

On this issue, the Sectoral Commission decided to maintain the minimum monthly wage rate (salary) of the first category employee not lower than the minimum monthly wage established for the relevant fiscal year by the Republic of Kazakhstan law on the republican budget, with a factor of 1.2, taking into account tax rates on individual income tax and compulsory pension contributions, according to the current Industry Agreement in the oil and gas, oil refining and petrochemical industry nical industries Kazakhstan for 2017-2019 years (hereinafter - industrial agreement).

The decision will allow starting from 01.01.2019 to increase the minimum monthly wage rate (salary) of an employee of the first category in the oil and gas industry to 51.0 thousand tenge, which is higher than the minimum monthly wage in the republic.

Additional Agreement No. 3 was signed on introducing changes to the Industry Agreement. These changes were adopted in order to harmonize the text of the Branch Agreement with the text of the General Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan, republican associations of workers and republican associations of employers for 2018-2020.

It should be noted that the timeliness of making these decisions will have a positive effect on social and labor relations and will improve the situation in the labor collectives of the oil and gas industry of the republic.

t the end of the session of the Branch Commission, Vice Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan Akchulakov B.U. congratulated everyone on the upcoming holiday on Independence Day of Kazakhstan and presented departmental awards: medal "For contributions to the oil and gas industry" to the executive director for human capital development of the Association "Kazenergy" L. Akhmurzina and vice-chairman of the Public Association "Kazakhstan Oil and Gas Industry Trade Union" E. Mustafina.

Press Service of the Ministry of Energy of the RoK