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Minimum wage in 2025 will be 53,592 dinars
After the session of the Socio-Economic Council, representatives of the trade unions, employers, and the Government addressed the public regarding the results of their talks about increasing minimum wage. Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević announced that, for the first time in six years, the minimum wage was agreed upon during the session, meaning that the […]
Read moreOver 13,000 foreigners work in Kazakhstan
The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Population of the Republic of Kazakhstan has indicated that 13,835 foreign nationals are currently employed in the country, Kazinform News Agency reports. The majority of foreign employees are specialists and skilled workers, with 5,097 and 538 individuals, respectively. Additionally, 559 foreigners are employed as managers and […]
Read moreGeorgian labour rights advocates challenge Evolution at OECD
The Social Justice Centre (SJC), a Tbilisi-based advocacy group, have announced that they have filed a complaint with the Swedish ‘contact points’ at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on behalf of striking employees of Evolution Georgia. Employees of Evolution Georgia, primarily card shufflers and game presenters, began their strike on 12 July, […]
Read moreMore than 10,000 ethnic Kazakhs came back to Kazakhstan in January- July 2024
According to Kazinform News Agency, 10,134 ethnic Kazakhs have returned to Kazakhstan and received the status of kandas as of August 1, 2024.
The Ministry of Labour and Social Protection reports that 47.5% of the ethnic immigrants came from China, 37% arrived from Uzbekistan, 5.8% from Turkmenistan, 5.2% from Mongolia, 3.2% from Russia and 1.3% came from other countries.
59% of ethnic immigrants are people of employable age, 31.3% are underage children and 9.7% are pensioners as of August 1, 2024.
The majority of them were located in workforce-deficit areas, such as Akmola, Abai, Kostanay, Pavlodar, East Kazakhstan and North Kazakhstan regions.
Some benefits are provided to those settling in the abovementioned areas.
Firstly, each family member gets a lump-sum travel costs to the amount of 70MCI (monthly calculation indices) (258,400 tenge). Secondly, each family gets a monthly housing rent and utility allowance for the period of 12 months, amounting from 15 to 30 MCI depending on the number of family members (from 55,300 to 110,700 tenge).
Since 1991, 1,138,500 ethnic Kazakhs in total have come back to the historical motherland.
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Read moreStatistics office reports a 3.1% decrease of unemployment rate in Georgia in Q2
A new update of data from the National Statistics Office of Georgia shows a decrease by 3.1 percent of unemployment rate in Georgia in the second quarter of 2024 year-on-year and (13.7 percent across the country).
According to Geostat, the number of hired employees had increased by 2.1 percent (935,800 individuals), while the number of self-employed had increased by 10.1 percent (451,500).
The Office reported a 17.7 percent decrease of the number of unemployed in the same period (219,700).
An increase by 2.8 percentage points was shown by the employment rate (47 percent) and a 1.3 percentage points growth was demonstrated by the share of the labour force in the total population aged 15 and older increased by year-on-year (54.5 percent).
3 percentage points increase of employment rate was registered in urban settlements (47.9 percent) and by 2.5 percentage points in rural areas (45.8 percent).
The Office reported that 67.5 percent among employed individuals were hired employees (1.6 percentage points lower than the previous year’s corresponding period).
The decrease of the unemployment rate in both urban areas and rural settlements was by 3.5 and 2.5 percentage points respectively in Q2.
The rate was traditionally higher for men (2.6 percentage points down, 10.9 percent) than for women (3.6 percentage points decrease, 15.9 percent).
According to Geostat, the indicator of the labour force participation rate was 44.4 percent for women (increased by 1.5 percentage points) and 66.1 percent for men (1 percentage points up) in Q2.
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Read moreLithuania will extend temporary residence permits for refugees from Ukraine
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania has prepared a government resolution on the extension of temporary protection of refugees from Ukraine until March 4, 2026. The term of the previous one expires in March 2025. This was reported by the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT. The Migration Department of Lithuania says that every day 30-40 […]
Read moreOver 1/3 of employers are planning layoffs and price increases if minimum wage goes up
The Serbian Employers’ Union has not yet proposed a specific amount by which the minimum wage should be increased, but it underlines that the most important parameters for businesses in Serbia are the growth of gross domestic product (GDP) and inflation. “The unions have come forward with their proposal. We haven’t yet presented a specific […]
Read moreOver 10,000 ethnic Kazakhs return to Kazakhstan in 7M2024
10,134 ethnic Kazakhs have returned to Kazakhstan and received the status of kandas as of August 1, 2024, Kazinform News Agency reports. According to the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, 47.5% of the ethnic immigrants came from China. 37% arrived from Uzbekistan, 5.8% are from Turkmenistan, 5.2% from Mongolia, 3.2% from Russia and 1.3% […]
Read moreUnemployment rate in Georgia down by 3.1% in Q2, statistics office says
Unemployment rate in Georgia decreased by 3.1 percent in the second quarter of 2024 year-on-year and equalled 13.7 percent across the country. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge Unemployment rate in Georgia decreased by 3.1 percent in the second quarter of 2024 year-on-year and equalled 13.7 percent across the country, a new update of data from the National […]
Read moreResidence permits to work in Lithuania must be obtained by Ukrainians without temporary protection starting from September 2024
Ukrainian refugees without temporary protection will need a residence permit since September 1, 2024 to continue working in Lithuania.
Before that, Ukrainians could work in Lithuania even without a permit, due to certain conditions they met.
So, these changes will affect all those who used the visa-free regime or had a valid Schengen visa, as well as those who had national visas issued based on unforeseen circumstances.
According to the explanation of the Lithuanian Department of Migration, as soon as the new rule becomes effective, Ukrainians without temporary protection will be able to work only after they receive their permit and not from the submission date. It is suggested that everyone takes care of their application ahead of time.
It makes a foreigner who is not entitled to temporary protection but unable to return to Ukraine due to hostilities and who has applied for a temporary residence permit on work or humanitarian grounds be entitled to work from the date of obtaining a residence permit, and not from the date of submission of their application.
Lithuania’s Department of Migration assures that Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war who benefit from the Temporary Protection Mechanism introduced by the European Union in Lithuania after the Department of Migration grants them digital residence permit will not be affected by such changes.
So, newly arrived war refugees can start work when they apply for a temporary residence permit to the Migration Department under temporary protection, as before.
According to Lithuanian authorities, Ukrainian employees will not have to meet language requirements (to speak Lithuanian) to work in the country for at least another year (until 2025).
The period during which “categories of knowledge of the state language will not apply to the employment of foreign nationals under temporary protection in Lithuania” that initially was two years after receiving temporary protection, has been extended to three years by the country.
The period of temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees was extended until March 2025 by the decision of the Cabinet at the beginning of this year.
The Ministry of Social Security and Labor reported that almost 30,000 Ukrainians have found work in Lithuania since the beginning of the full-scale occupation of Ukraine by Russia from February 2022 until February 2024.
According to an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) survey of Ukrainian refugees living in Lithuania, 70 per cent of respondents were actively involved in the labour force (73 per cent of men and 70 per cent of women), while 30 per cent remained inactive (27 per cent of men and 30 per cent of women).
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