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This week saw a series of announcements from Russian regional authorities implementing prohibitions on hiring foreign workers in various industries. Kommersant reports that in Irkutsk oblast, Governor Igor Kobzev has signed a decree that restricts foreign citizens with work patents from working in several major sectors. asiaplustj.info »
In Tajikistan, specialists are leaving the field of land reclamation and irrigation due to low wages. The authorities plan to increase their wages by paying for water supply services. But water users either do not want or cannot pay for irrigation water. asiaplustj.info »
Russian media outlets report that State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament) Deputy Speaker said that creation of a digital profile for every migrant worker coming to Russia is planned to track migrant's movements. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik and Uzbek textile workers are planning to launch joint venture in the field of silkworm breeding this year. Tajik enterprise manufacturing atlas and adras (vivid and fine traditional fabrics), Atlasi Khujand, and Samarkand textile workers, engaged in processing cocoon and producing silk tread, are planning to launch the joint venture Samarkand-Sughd Silk this year. asiaplustj.info »
The Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation, has announced a shortage of 200,000 workers in the country’s construction sector. asiaplustj.info »
The Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population of the Republic of Tajikistan says the 18th session of the Tajikistan-Russia intergovernmental commission for trade and economic cooperation, co-chaired by Tajik Prime Minister Qohir Rasoulzoda and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Aleksey Overchuk, in particular, discussed labor migration cooperation issues. asiaplustj.info »
A report released by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in September this year notes that Tajikistan is experiencing significant adverse economic and social impacts from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. asiaplustj.info »
Radio Liberty says thousands of laborers from Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan came to Britain this year under the U.K. government’s Seasonal Workers Scheme designed to address a severe shortage of farm workers due to Brexit. asiaplustj.info »
The State Duma (Russia’s lower chamber of parliament) denounced the agreement on pension guarantees for citizens of the CIS countries, which has been in force since 1992. The decision was formalized as a federal law, The Moscow News reports . asiaplustj.info »
Russian media reports says new rules that came into effect on December 29 impose mandatory fingerprint registration and photography in addition for medical examinations for foreign citizens arriving in Russia for employment purposes and those arriving in Russia for purposes other than work for a period exceeding 90 calendar days. asiaplustj.info »
Russia has been a top destination for millions of Central Asian migrant workers since the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago and a much smaller portion of the region's laborers went to Kazakhstan in the first years after the Soviet Union’s demise. Ms. asiaplustj.info »
26,300 health workers in Tajikistan have reportedly been vaccinated against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) so far, which is 51. 5 percent of the overall number health workers in the country. Ms. asiaplustj.info »
After riots perpetrated by local workers, Uzbek company Enter Engineering has reportedly hired hundreds of Bangladeshi workers. On November 8, Enter Engineering reportedly brought 239 Bangladeshi workers by a special charter flight to Tashkent. According to Central Asia. asiaplustj.info »
Tajik government has obligated local employers to pay allowances to fly-in/fly-out employees and mobile workers. A relevant decree on conditions and procedure of payment and rates of allowances paid to fly-in/fly-out employees and mobile workers was signed by the government on August 27. asiaplustj.info »
New analysis by Amnesty International (AI) has found that at least 7,000 health workers have died around the world after contracting COVID-19. At least 1,320 health workers are confirmed to have died in Mexico alone, the highest known figure for any country. asiaplustj.info »
President Emomali Rahmon is holding a meeting with representative of the country’s health sector today, a source within the Tajik government told Asia-Plus in an interview. asiaplustj.info »
A group of Polish health workers who arrived in Tajikistan by a special charter flight on June 7 today left Dushanbe for the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) to get acquainted with the process of treatment of COVID-19 patients in the region, Deputy Minister of Health and Social Protection of the Population, Mirhamuddin Kamolzoda, told Asia-Plus Tuesday afternoon. asiaplustj.info »
