News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyzstan may require licenses for agencies sending workers abroad
A draft law introducing new rules for private employment agencies has been submitted for public discussion in Kyrgyzstan. The draft proposes amendments to three pieces of legislation: the Law on the ...
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyzstan discusses regulation of digital employment
A roundtable discussion was held in Bishkek on October 13 to discuss a study on digital employment and emerging digital professions in Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of Labor, Social Security and Migration ...
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyzstan Rejects European Migrant Resettlement Proposals
Kyrgyzstan says it rejected European job offers linked to accepting migrants from Afghanistan and Africa, but the countries involved remain unidentified.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyz Ask Why Jobs At Home Are Going To Chinese
When jobs are so scarce at home that many people are forced to seek work abroad, why are so many Chinese entering the local workforce? That's the question being asked by many workers and activists in ...
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyzstan Says Border With Tajikistan Can Reopen 'Gradually' After Delimitation Work
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s southern region of Batken say the border with Tajikistan, shut down more than two years ago following a deadly standoff, can "gradually reopen" after delimitation and demarcation work between the two Central Asian nations is fully accomplished.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Unemployment Rate In Kyrgyzstan Decreases
According to the State Statistical Committee of the country, the number of the unemployed in Kyrgyzstan stood at over 131,000, which is 8 percent less than in 2021.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyzstan Sends Note To Moscow On Taxi Driver Beaten In Russia
Kyrgyzstan's Foreign Ministry says its embassy in Moscow has sent a note to Russia's Foreign Ministry over the beating of a Kyrgyz citizen working there as a taxi driver.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: No Justice 3 Years After Kyrgyzstan Rights Defender’s Death
Azimjon Askarov, a human rights defender and advocate for marginalized communities in southern Kyrgyzstan, should have turned 72 this year. He should be enjoying life with his wife, children ...
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Total number of unemployed decreases in Kyrgyzstan by 5%
BISHKEK. KAZINFORM - Since the beginning of the year, job fairs have been organized in all regions and cities of Kyrgyzstan, where 19 thousand people took part, the Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Migration of the country said, Kabar reports.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyzstan: Bills Curbing Basic Freedoms Advance
President Sooronbai Jeenbekov of Kyrgyzstan should veto two laws that are pending his signature on the grounds that they violate the country’s human rights obligations, Human Rights Watch said today.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Officials Who Can't Speak Kyrgyz Will Be Fired, State Warns, As Language Law Takes Effect
Kyrgyz officials who can't speak Kyrgyz, the state language, will be fired from their jobs, the government has announced. The warning comes days after President Sadyr Japarov signed a law making it compulsory for state workers to be proficient in Kyrgyz.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Korea Interested In Increasing Quota For Labor Migrants From Kyrgyzstan
Deputy Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic Edil Baisalov held a meeting with Minister of Employment and Labor of the Republi ...
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Tensions between Moscow and Bishkek over the Kyrgyz language
President Žaparov signed constitutional law obliging state officials to be able to use the Kyrgyz language, eliminating an ambiguity in the post-Soviet constitution that equated it with Russian. To access public places you will need to pass a language test and even advertising messages will be only in Kyrgyz. Moscow protests in support of Russian speakers.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyzstan’s ongoing struggle for sovereignty
Writing from the central Asian republic, MARCEL CARTIER meets a nation positive about its future and openly proud of its Soviet past ...
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Kyrgyz Blogger, Activists Sent To Pretrial Detention After Rally Over Drinking Water
The Sokuluk district court in Kyrgyzstan's north has sent noted blogger Ertai Iskakov and two activists, Bakyt Balbaev and Baktybek Bekbolotov, to pretrial detention until September 15 over last week's rally by two villages to demand a resumption of drinking water supplies.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: Taking Stock of Kyrgyzstan-US Relations With Amb. Lesslie Viguerie
The Diplomat’s Managing Editor Catherine Putz had a recent conversation with U.S. Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan Lesslie Viguerie about the state of relations.
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: EDB, Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund to finance HPS construction in Kyrgyzstan
According to the agreement, the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund will contribute $44 million towards the project, matched by the Eurasian Development Bank as the second creditor and partner. Following ...
News Kyrgyzstan Employment: 5,000 Jobs Planned To Be Created In Kyrgyzstan With U.S. Assistance
The National Investment Agency and the Kyrgyz-American Association for the Development of Logistics Services signed a Memorandum of Cooperation, Aze ...