EDUCATION
2000 — Kazakh State Law Academy, specialisation "Jurisprudence"
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
2000 – 2009 — HR specialist at companies in various industries
2009 — GRATA law firm, Almaty, labour lawyer
2012 – 2017 — GRATA law firm, Atyrau branch, senior labour lawyer, deputy branch director, labour law adviser
2019 – present — head of the labour law department of the GRATA law firm, Almaty
SPECIALISATION
Labour law: the full range of advice, HR documentation audits, legal support of employment contract termination procedures, drafting HR documentation
Projects:
Advising one of the largest Kazakhstani mining companies on hiring and dismissing senior managers
Advising one of the largest Kazakhstani metallurgical companies on implementing staff bonus systems
Advising a major Kazakhstani gas producer on hiring foreign staff
Advising a Kazakhstani telecommunications holding on staff optimisation in connection with a reorganisation
Auditing HR documentation at the Kazakhstani subsidiaries of an international manufacturer and supplier of telecommunications equipment for mobile networks, a Hungarian oil and gas holding, a large Chinese energy company; the representative office of an international pharmaceutical manufacturer; the largest Kazakhstani cement producer; the Kazakhstani subsidiary of a leading Chinese petrochemical corporation
Supporting the termination of employment contracts with senior managers of the representative offices of several large pharmaceutical companies, an international confectionery manufacturer, a leading Kazakhstani mining company and the Kazakhstani subsidiary of an international manufacturer and supplier of baby food
Supporting the termination of employment contracts due to redundancy for the representative offices of a Norwegian multinational oil and gas company, a large Canadian helicopter company and several Italian oil and gas companies. The support procedure includes:
Preparing a memorandum on the employer's obligations, restrictions on termination for certain categories of employees, etc.
Preparing drafts of all documents required for termination (notices, orders, etc.)
Liaising with employment authorities, employee representatives and employees
Drafting employment contracts for the Kazakhstani representative offices of large international companies specialising in the production of aviation and space technology and power equipment, and for a Kazakhstani gold mining company
Supporting the introduction of a new employment contract form at the Kazakhstani subsidiary bank of a large European financial holding
Drafting bonus regulations for the Kazakhstani subsidiary of a large international engineering holding
Drafting job descriptions and internal labour regulations for the representative offices of a major innovation and manufacturing company, an American company that is one of the world market leaders in the production and sale of consumer goods, and an international confectionery group
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
1. Practising lecturer
Seminars on the following topics:
Labour relations in the Republic of Kazakhstan: theory and practice
Termination of the employment contract
Hiring foreign labour
Rotational work
Collective agreement
Individual labour disputes. Conciliation commission
Collective labour disputes. Strikes. Crisis communications
Workplace accidents
2. Professional mediator
3. Publications
Articles on concluding and terminating employment contracts, changing working conditions and hiring foreign labour in the journals Biznes i Vlast, Nerezidenty, FB-Kadry and Spravochnik Kadrovika