25 enterprises stopped their activity in republic: Minister of Labor
11:52, 13 January 2009
ASTANA. January 13. KAZINFORM /Baurzhan Mukanov/ 25 enterprises, where over 7 thousand of people worked, stopped their activity as of January, 1, 2009. Kazakh Minister of Labor and Social Protection Berdibek Saparbayev has announced it at the Government?s session; Kazinform reports.
?Amount of enterprises with conditions of partial employment forms 234 and over 72 thousand of people work there. 28 thousand out of them are in temporary vacations or in a regime of part-time working days. A special interdepartmental working group was created for solution of employment problems. It will be engaged in job placement of specialists, their professional retraining and creation of temporary jobs. Quota for foreign employees is declined by 2 times against 2008 for protection of the domestic market?, the Minister said.