Kazakhstan Refuses To Ease Access To Hazardous Work Payments

Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Labor and Social Protection is not considering lowering the age threshold for special payments to employees working in harmful and hazardous conditions, Orda.kz reports.

Labor and Social Protection Minister Askarbek Yertayev said the payments are currently available to workers in hazardous jobs from the age of 55. According to him, the ministry is not considering any initiatives to lower that age.

Not planned, not considered. There are no such issues on the agenda,the minister said.

According to Yertayev, current legislation already allows employees working in harmful and hazardous conditions to receive payments from the age of 55 and move to another job. To qualify, they must have at least seven years of pension contributions.

This was already adopted by law a year ago. There is no point in revising it now. The second issue concerns the list of harmful and hazardous working conditions. It includes 2,800 professions across 16 industries,Yertayev said.

At the same time, the list can be expanded if the relevant state body submits such a proposal and provides scientific evidence that a particular profession is linked to hazardous working conditions.

Original author: Ilya Astakhov

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