Kazakhstan intends to legalize platform employment, announced Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Population Tamara Duissenova. According to her, about half a million people in the country work in online systems in various areas, including travel portals, taxi services and food delivery. Despite the fact that this format of freelance work is convenient for the population, its main drawback is the lack of social support. With this in mind, the relevant ministry has developed a special pilot project to integrate such workers into the social protection system. Together with the operators of eight main online platforms operating in the country, the Labor Ministry will conduct a testing, the results of which will be presented by the end of the year.
“The measures that we will determine together with the operators will by no means be a barrier or red tape to complicate the current registration process. This approach will be further extended to other categories of citizens too. It will be a simplified registration procedure and there should not be any additional types of registration other than a simplified tax regime and a simplified regime for social payments. As, for example, the current one for single social payments,” said Tamara Duissenova, Kazakh Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population.
Translation by Assem Zhanmukhanova
Editing by Galiya Khassenkhanova
