Employment Policies and Procedures

Employment Policies and Procedures

GRATA Law Firm has the honor to bring to your notice the following information, which we hope may be useful for your company:

The current labor legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan has the range of requirements to availability and content of the documents to be applied by employers when executing labor relations with employees. One of those documents is the Employment policies and procedures.

WHEREBY  Employment policies and procedures are OBLIGATORY for an employer.

Employment policies and procedures (“EPP”) are the basic act of an employer regulating the procedure of relations between an employer and employees as well as between employees themselves.

The EPP shall be approved by an employer as agreed with representatives of employees. Coordination shall be in the procedure specified by Article 12 of the Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Pursuant to Article 69 of the Labor Code of the RK the EPP shall be obligatory both for employer and employees.

According to Article 33 of the Labor Code of the RK an employer shall be obliged to introduce the EPP to an employee when employing.

Practical importance of the Employment polices and procedures.

The presence of this document has been dictated not only by the imperative provisions of the Labor Code of the RK but first of all by the operational need. Labor relations experience shows that the clearer and more detailed the rules for relations between an employer and employees are specified, the more organized the company’s operations are and the easier the decisions making is in case of conflicts between employees and an employer. Considering that the EPP may include:

• Employment procedure/procedure for labor agreement termination;
• Basic rights (obligations) of employees/employers;
• Working ours and timekeeping;
• Corporate culture (business ethic) principles of a company;
• Basic commercial and informational safety;
• Responsibility for violation of labor discipline;
• Bonus system.

this document actually may be the Corporate Codes of Conduct for employees and employers.

For a long operational period our company has gathered the wide and various experience in labor relations rendering services in this sector not only to Kazakhstani but to foreign companies as well. Our experience covers not only drafting of new internal regulatory documents but also the adjustment of the documents used in other companies (head holdings, for instance) to be applicable for operations in Kazakhstan.

Considering the above, GRATA Law Firm offers you its services on development of the EPP considering the activity nature of your company.

Best Regards,

Marina Kolesnikova

Lawyer

Corporate Law Department

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