North-Kazakhstan region became the first region, which is visited by the Minister of Labor.

Heads of relevant departments acquainted with the implementation of the Program of development of productive employment and enterprise mass, targeted social assistance to the new format, and also held a meeting with akims of districts and Petropavlovsk, heads of departments of employment and social programs, directors of employment centers on the implementation of the roadmap for formalization of the self-employed.

By the way, this topic has become a key on a working visit of the Minister of Madina Abylkasymova.

Recall that in the past year in preparation for the introduction of OSMS was carried out verification of the status of the country's population in the databases. As a result, it defined the social status of 13.2 million people. During podvorovogo bypass could formalize the status of 3 million. People, of which about 130 thousand accounts in the North-Kazakhstan region.

Noting the special relevance of this issue, the Minister accentuated the attention of the audience on two categories of self-employed, which will be carried out major work.

"The first group - it's an informal self-employed, ie, unregistered individual entrepreneurs and employees working without labor contracts. In your area of ​​more than 39 thousand of citizens.

And if for this category formalization will be held at the central level - a simplified registration will be provided, tax incentives, expansion of micro-credit instruments, then the second group of the self-employed need to take concrete practical measures to promote employment at local level. In this case we are talking about non-productive self-employed and unregistered unemployed. By the way, in MSE their more than 36 thousand people, "- said the Minister of Labor Madina Abylkasymova.

At the same time, the heads of relevant departments tasked the regional administration for the current year to engage in productive employment of 27 500 self-employed and the unemployed.

On what measures are being taken in the performance of tasks, reported deputy akim Askhat Sakipkereev.

"Today, the region approved the Roadmap for the formalization of the self-employed and a comprehensive plan to facilitate their employment. Implementation of these measures will engage in productive employment for more than 13,300 unemployed and 14,000 self-employed unproductively "- said the deputy akim of the region.

Also during the meeting the Minister had announced the results of the first year of implementation of the Program of development of productive employment and mass business.

Thus, measures of employment over half a million people were covered all over the country. Permanent employment provided 300 thousand unemployed and the self-employed. 7300 was issued micro credits in excess of 34 bn.. As a result, about 4,200 people started their own business.

 The Minister gave a positive assessment of the implementation of the Program of productive employment and mass business in the region, which achieve targets on employment (4.3 thousand unemployed persons), training (2800 people), micro-credit (432).

However, Madina Abylkasymova noted the need to strengthen the work of the IOI in the resettlement of citizens from labor-surplus regions.

"The region is not sufficiently carried out work on employment of immigrants from the southern regions. In 2017 it was employed less than half of the working age "- the minister said, pointing out of the region's demographic imbalance, where the birth process is 13, 6 persons per 1000 population.

In this regard, before the akimat of the region and akims of all levels it has been tasked to maximize the availability of jobs for immigrants and labor flows.

And issues for social security were discussed during the meeting, the social protection of disabled persons, as well as the protection of labor rights of employees, including the timely payment of wages.