Lazutina Irina Viktorovna

Irina
Viktorovna
Lazutina

Specialisation

  • Labour law
  • Labour legislation
  • HR

Education and internships

  • Higher technical, higher economic, jurisprudence
  • Business training "Leadership and Team", Chamberlain Education training centre, Almaty 2019
  • Practical training "Lean Management", Usenkov.pro, Kaliningrad, Russia 2020
  • Seminar "Developing Management Skills", A-SOLUTION GROUP LLP, Almaty 2020
  • Awarded the diploma "Best Specialist, Uchet-2020" in the category "Online Tutor of the Year"
  • Diploma "HR Director" — from LABA, 2021

Work experience

1997-2003

  • Developing and implementing international projects to increase economic activity and personal growth (GTZ, the German Society for Technical Cooperation; the Soros-Kazakhstan Foundation; USIS, the information service of the US Embassy; the Friedrich Ebert Foundation; USAID; the German Embassy, etc.)
  • Analytical work studying the causes of rising unemployment and declining work motivation among various population groups;
  • Developing and delivering training seminars on legal matters (labour law, pension provision in the Republic of Kazakhstan, organising and running a small business in the Republic of Kazakhstan);
  • Developing and delivering seminars on increasing work motivation, self-esteem and personal development;
  • Developing and implementing programmes of interest-free loans and grants for starting and expanding small businesses;
  • Developing staff motivation and assessment programmes for companies;
  • Participation in staff assessment and appraisal at companies of various ownership forms;
  • Participation in the public expert council for small business support at the Almaty city akimat.

2003-2005

  • Developing projects for financing small and medium-sized businesses;
  • Assessing the economic efficiency of business projects;
  • Attracting foreign capital for lending to small and medium-sized business projects;
  • Managing small and medium-sized business financing projects

in Almaty and Almaty region;

  • Participation in the public expert council for small business support at the Almaty city akimat.

2005 — 2017

  • HR management at a foreign company;
  • Participation in international information and educational programmes (Russia, Germany, Switzerland);
  • Delivering open and corporate seminars, trainings and consultations on: "Labour Relations in the Republic of Kazakhstan", "Labour Disputes in the Republic of Kazakhstan", "HR Management", "Personal Growth and Developing Inner Potential", "HR Records Management", etc.; auditing HR documentation, individual consulting;
  • From January 2009, coordinator of the pilot project "NGOs: Legal Audit" at the Institute for Development Cooperation (Idc).

Project goal: spreading knowledge of the regulation of labour relations in the Republic of Kazakhstan among the heads of public organisations, conducting research on violations of labour rights, organising and supporting a website to inform NGO representatives in Kazakhstan about labour legislation, auditing HR documentation, preparing proposals for amending the labour legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The project was implemented with the support of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and the European Commission within the partner network of NGOs of Central Asia, Russia and Belarus.

2018 —2022 Uchet.kz:

  • Head of the group developing the automated HR records system "HR Assistant";
  • Head of HR for the Uchet group of companies;
  • Speaker at the Koldau educational project for entrepreneurs (initiated by the Almaty city akimat);
  • Author of the training course "Labour Relations in the Republic of Kazakhstan" in Russian/Kazakh;
  • Author of the seminar for Uchet group franchisees "Qualities of an Effective Team";
  • Author of trainings and mini-seminars for internal team training;
  • Coordinator of the "HR Assistant" section on the Uchet portal.

April 2022 — June 2025

MCFR company — editor-in-chief of the online academy "HR and Personnel"

July 2025 — present

Cooperation with PRG (formerly Paragraph), MyBuh, PCG (Premier Consulting Group), Bitrix (digitalising the business process of forming and running the Conciliation Commission) and others.

Membership of organisations

  • Chamber of Auditors of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Chamber of Tax Consultants of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Professional accountant of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • Distinguished Worker of the Tax Service of the Republic of Kazakhstan
  • November-December 2025 — Partner badge from Tengizchevroil LLP (team assessment of the seminar programme and lecturing skills; the first external lecturer to receive this distinction from TCO). Delivered the joint seminar "All about Wages", part "Remuneration and Other Employee Guarantees under the Labour Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan" for staff of the Industrial Relations Department (2 shifts).
  • February 2026 — Anniversary badge from NC KazMunayGas JSC (assessment of lecturing skills and course material). Trained the members of the company's Conciliation Commission.
  • Certified OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) trainer in legal matters, nominee for the national AZHAR award in the Finance category in 2006, participant of international educational programmes in Russia, Uzbekistan, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, the USA and Switzerland.
  • Extensive experience of speaking in the media and at open events, participation in resolving individual labour disputes in court, consulting to prevent labour disputes and reduce risks for the parties, organising and maintaining HR records, training conciliation commission members, auditing HR documentation
  • Delivering offline seminars on labour legislation (National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Rakhat JSC, Kazpost JSC, TCO, CaspiMunaiGas and others)

Publications

  • Author of the book "Terminating an Employment Contract Simply and without Consequences"
  • Cooperation with the publications Spektr Razvitiya and Deloproizvodstvo v Kazakhstane, the BIKO publishing house (the publications Trud. Zarplata. Pensiya, Biblioteka Bukhgaltera i Predprinimatelya, Gossektor), the companies Paragraph, MyBuh and others.

Author of the courses:

  • HR Adviser
  • Practising HR Officer
  • The Conciliation Commission in a Kazakhstani Company (the course holds a state-issued copyright certificate, updated annually)
  • Business without Fines, Financial Losses or Imprisonment.
  • Labour Relations in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
  • Labour Relations in Flowcharts. Digitalising and automating the day-to-day work of the HR service.
  • Accountant + HR Officer: Working in Tandem (co-authored course)
  • How to Keep HR Records. A course for accountants at outsourcing companies, etc.