Employment matters are crucial for your company’s operations efficiency and performance.

Dentons has been advising multinational companies on the full range of employment and migration law matters in Central Asia for more than 20 years. Our employment and labor lawyers are well-known for their creative approach, practical solutions and highly successful litigation practice.

You can rely on Dentons Employment practice lawyers— whether you are looking for advice on the preparation of employment contracts, other hiring formalities, handling immigration matters for expatriate executives or on complex employment law cases, including structuring staff reductions and transfers and managing labor law disputes on an individual and general-staff level.

Where Dentons can assist you:

• Drafting employment contracts and verifying their compliance with the law /  special requirements and objectives of the employer.
• Advising on opportunities for use and drafting of civil-law agreements (service agreements) with a subject close to employment.
• Advising on HR documentation, including verification and, where necessary, preparation of drafts of any and all personnel documents.
• Advising on migration issues arising when employing foreign citizens in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
• Advising on employment issues arising in the course of an employer’s restructuring.
• Advising on the termination of employment relations on various grounds (individual and mass dismissals, dismissal for cause, by staff reduction, by agreement of the parties, etc.). Advising on complex legal issues.
• Advising on benefits, guarantees and compensations for employees with special working conditions.
• Interacting with trade unions, representation of the employer in collective negotiations, assisting with concluding collective bargaining agreements, assistance in settling collective disputes.
• Advising on health and safety matters.
• Auditing labor law compliance.
• Providing full legal support for companies during audits of labor law compliance by the State Labor Inspectorate and prosecution service.
• Representing companies in litigation and out-of-court resolution of individual and collective disputes.
• Advising on the material liability of companies and/or employees, compensation of harm.
• Advising on personal data protection and protection of confidential information.
• Investigation of company and/or employee activities in the event of whistle-blowing and compliance investigations
• Advising on agency labor, outsourcing and out-staffing

Insights

Azerbaijan Doing Business Guide 2023

May 2023

Azerbaijan: Dentons’ Baku office has recently published the sixteen edition of its doing business guide, “Succeeding in Azerbaijan,” which represents the collective knowledge and experience of our Firm’s years of advising clients in Azerbaijan.

Supreme Court issues key ruling on employment terminations—but court practice on this has yet to be established

July 19, 2022

Kazakhstan: In June 2022, Kazakhstan’s Supreme Court ruled that terminating an employment contract without first notifying the employee about the upcoming mutual consent termination is legal.

Azerbaijan Doing Business Guide 2022

May 31, 2022

Azerbaijan: Dentons’ Baku office has recently published the fourteen edition of its doing business guide, “Succeeding in Azerbaijan,” which represents the collective knowledge and experience of our Firm’s years of advising clients in Azerbaijan.

View all insights for Employment and Labor in Central Asia