What is a trade union:
Uniting citizens in order to protect their rights and interests improve working conditions, find new ways to improve the quality of life and ensure social guarantees.
An association of workers connected by common labor, production and professional interests.
The legal and independent representative of employees in their relationship with the employer.
What the union does:
- Negotiates with employers, on behalf of employees concludes and monitors the implementation of agreements and collective agreements, which spell out benefits and social guarantees.
- Carries out public control over the observance of labor legislation.
- Carries out public control over the state of health and safety.
- Protects the interests of union members through conciliation and conciliation commissions, labor arbitration, and a commission for investigating accidents at work.
- Provides legal and advisory assistance.
How to join a union:
- If your enterprise already has a primary trade union organization (primary organization), you must write an application to the trade union committee for admission to union membership and collection of membership dues. Confirmation of membership in a trade union is a trade union card issued by the trade union committee. Before joining a trade union, you have the right to familiarize yourself with the Charter and regulations on the primary trade union organization.
If your company does not yet have a trade union organization, you can form one yourself. - If your company does not yet have a trade union organization, you can form one yourself.
- Primary union organization:
Primary organization – a structural unit of a local or sectoral trade union located directly in the organization and consisting of union members who are employees of this organization. The primary organization is the authorized representative of employees in social partnership at the organization level. - To create a primary organization, the expression of the will of at least three people from among the employees of this organization is sufficient.
- The procedure for creating, terminating activities, rights and obligations are determined by the regulation on the primary organization of a trade union in accordance with the charter of a local or sectoral trade union and the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
How to create a primary union organization?
- Conduct the first organizational general meeting (conference) of the primary organization (download the draft minutes);
- Approve the Regulations on the primary organization (download the draft Regulations);
- Submit an application for membership in the primary organization and payment of membership dues (download sample applications).
Apply for membership as a structural unit in a local or branch trade union.
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