President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov signed the Labor Code, aimed at achieving a balance of interests between employees and employers. The bill was adopted by the Parliament on December 18, 2024.
The concept of the Code provides for:
— Simplification of the terms of an employment contract, labor relations (conclusion of an employment contract in electronic form; local regulations containing labor law standards; maintaining an electronic work record book);
— Reduction in the number of public holidays and non-working days;
— Establishment of New Year and May holidays;
— Abolition of the rule on the transfer of days off;
— Establishment of special measures for quotas for jobs for people with disabilities, graduates of orphanages;
— Payment of a one-time benefit in the event of an employee receiving an industrial injury or his death in the same amount determined by the Cabinet of Ministers;
— Establishing a single penalty rate of 0.25 percent for violation by the employer of the deadline for payment of salaries, vacation pay, severance pay and other payments;
— Establishing a limitation period for disputes over the collection of salaries of three years;
— Elimination of the limitation on the interest rate when paying the overdue amount of debt;
— Introduction of a rule that an employment contract, by agreement of the parties, may establish both remote work and combined remote work;
— Establishing measures prohibiting the use of labor of pregnant women, women who are breastfeeding, in heavy work and employment at work with harmful and (or) hazardous working conditions;
— Remuneration, which is determined depending on the quantity, quality and complexity of the work performed on the basis of professional standards;
— Transfer of Article 7 from the Labor Code, regulating issues of representation of employees and employers, to the Law «On Social Partnership in the Field of Labor Relations».