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tructors, restaurants and cafes, shops, and shops for the sale of national souvenirs
and sweets. Tourism also gives impetus to the development of handicrafts and trade.
If the state cannot create the necessary conditions for the creation of jobs in the
country, then it must help its citizens, who are themselves looking for a job abroad. To
do this, it is offered to apply an integrated approach, which includes:
Formation of system facilitating external labor migration of citizens (preparation,
orientation seminars, advice on where best to go, what the specifics of the labor
market in these countries). In this regard, we can follow the example of the
Philippines, since it attaches great importance to the holding of pre-departure
orientation seminars as a mandatory educational program. It designed to help
potential migrants to their actual start to work by providing them with information
on the laws and procedures, cultural features and the experience of the host
country, the rights and duties, protection and asylum in cases of emergency, as
well as the psychological factors work abroad and separation from family. None
of the Filipino worker cannot get a job without going through such seminars;
The development of the system, facilitating legal migration (within the framework
of the laws of Tajikistan and the country of origin);
Building the system of protection of the rights of external labor migrants and their
families.
An important element of this work is to create a stable government body (agency) that
meets and conducts all the work in the field of external migration. This is an
unacceptable situation when the responsibility for external migration over the years is
passed from one body to another and back again. Policy in this area should be logical
and consistent, from the legislation and its implementation, to the negotiation and
implementation of the protection of our migrants for governments and employers in
other countries.
Tajikistan needs not only appropriate legislation and policy on migration, but also their
appropriate execution. To do this, must have the institutional capacity: the capacity to
develop laws and regulations, the ability to set priorities, the potential for policy
implementation, the potential on using of limited human and material resources, as well
as the potential of efficient and effective service delivery.
It is necessary to solve the issue of the future pension of migrant workers - citizens of
the Republic of Tajikistan. In addition to the positive impact on the living standards and
macroeconomic stability in Tajikistan, mass labor migration has some negative aspects.
Thus, the existence abroad of a significant number of citizens capable to work, seriously
increases the burden of social expenditures on people working in Tajikistan, whose
revenues are sources of tax payments. Already, the ratio of working people to
pensioners is around 2.2, which is considered quite unfavorable value. Many migrants
in pre-retirement age back home and pretend to receive at least the minimum pension.
Until recently, pension legislation allows, having a so-called "seniority" (or time in
employment) for any period of life, and only formally fulfilled the last couple of years in
Tajikistan, expect to retire, even exceeding the statutory minimum pension. The
outbreak in Tajikistan pension reform has changed the situation, but such categories of
people like migrant workers are at risk, whose financial support from the state in old age
is likely to be at a level below the subsistence level. Therefore, the issue of financial
and sweets. Tourism also gives impetus to the development of handicrafts and trade.
If the state cannot create the necessary conditions for the creation of jobs in the
country, then it must help its citizens, who are themselves looking for a job abroad. To
do this, it is offered to apply an integrated approach, which includes:
Formation of system facilitating external labor migration of citizens (preparation,
orientation seminars, advice on where best to go, what the specifics of the labor
market in these countries). In this regard, we can follow the example of the
Philippines, since it attaches great importance to the holding of pre-departure
orientation seminars as a mandatory educational program. It designed to help
potential migrants to their actual start to work by providing them with information
on the laws and procedures, cultural features and the experience of the host
country, the rights and duties, protection and asylum in cases of emergency, as
well as the psychological factors work abroad and separation from family. None
of the Filipino worker cannot get a job without going through such seminars;
The development of the system, facilitating legal migration (within the framework
of the laws of Tajikistan and the country of origin);
Building the system of protection of the rights of external labor migrants and their
families.
An important element of this work is to create a stable government body (agency) that
meets and conducts all the work in the field of external migration. This is an
unacceptable situation when the responsibility for external migration over the years is
passed from one body to another and back again. Policy in this area should be logical
and consistent, from the legislation and its implementation, to the negotiation and
implementation of the protection of our migrants for governments and employers in
other countries.
Tajikistan needs not only appropriate legislation and policy on migration, but also their
appropriate execution. To do this, must have the institutional capacity: the capacity to
develop laws and regulations, the ability to set priorities, the potential for policy
implementation, the potential on using of limited human and material resources, as well
as the potential of efficient and effective service delivery.
It is necessary to solve the issue of the future pension of migrant workers - citizens of
the Republic of Tajikistan. In addition to the positive impact on the living standards and
macroeconomic stability in Tajikistan, mass labor migration has some negative aspects.
Thus, the existence abroad of a significant number of citizens capable to work, seriously
increases the burden of social expenditures on people working in Tajikistan, whose
revenues are sources of tax payments. Already, the ratio of working people to
pensioners is around 2.2, which is considered quite unfavorable value. Many migrants
in pre-retirement age back home and pretend to receive at least the minimum pension.
Until recently, pension legislation allows, having a so-called "seniority" (or time in
employment) for any period of life, and only formally fulfilled the last couple of years in
Tajikistan, expect to retire, even exceeding the statutory minimum pension. The
outbreak in Tajikistan pension reform has changed the situation, but such categories of
people like migrant workers are at risk, whose financial support from the state in old age
is likely to be at a level below the subsistence level. Therefore, the issue of financial
