Republic of Kazakhstan

International Labour Organisation

Committee: International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Country: Republic of Kazakhstan
School: West Visayas State University
Delegate: Danny Dy Quioyo

In the modern world and in the continuous innovations in technology the role of automation has been relevant in the
recent years, and is still is. For automation gradually proliferates in almost every aspect of our lives and almost in
every industry. Whether it is in automobile, banking, financial, aviation, manufacturing,customer service, healthcare
and medicine, it is everywhere and almost every day that automation is conquering more and more new fields. And
some experts and economists already forecasted that there’s going to be some degree of unemployment in many
sectors due to automation and artificial intelligence which they term as “Technological Unemployment”. As per a
report published by World Bank, estimates around 65% of Indian service sector jobs are at risk due to automation.
And India isn’t alone, in China it would be around 77% and similarly other countries. And in the case of Kazakhstan,
the concept of “precarization of employment” begins to appear due to the new emerging labour relations, and with it
the people’s job securities and prospects for regular employments dwindling. These changes are due to the impact of
globalization and technological innovation. Kazakhstan’s export-oriented economy of raw materials struggles with the
problem of the developing industrial-innovative economy. These two factors bring additional specific features in the
manifestation of the precarization of employment in the country.

With the increasing scarcity of workplaces and tensions in the labor market, the threat of further deterioration in
Kazakhstan's labor market also increases along with the instability of labor relations and reduction of the working life
quality. While the task of becoming one of the 30 highly developed countries makes the problem employment
precarization relevant. Thus, the successful solution of this problem requires the mandatory formation of an innovative
economy, and the development of high-tech industries. A content analysis of the second phase of the State Program of
Forced Industrial-Innovative Development (SP FIID) in terms of its impact on employment shows that it mainly refers
to the creation of additional jobs by increasing the share of manufacturing sector. Meanwhile, the introduction of new
technologies leads to cost-effective, efficient economy in the long term, which is one of the main features of highly
developed countries. A new technology usually results in the reduction and elimination of the previous, old jobs, and
appearance is really new, requiring a high level of knowledge, expertise, and skills. Therefore it is advisable to review
content of SP FIID toward strengthening its focus on the introduction of new technologies, and at the same time to
search for potential problems of employment precarization solutions.

With the problem of precarization of employment regarding technological innovation already becoming far-fetched.
The Kazakhstan government started laying out plans for the country for ensuring economic growth and to support the
country into becoming one of the top 30 most developed countries in the world by 2050. The plan named "Third Stage
of Modernization” was set out by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, on it were five priorities outlining the
acceleration of technological modernisation of the economy, improved business environment, macroeconomic
stability, improved quality of human capital and institutional reforms, and including improved security and more
action to tackle corruption. President Nazarbayev said in his annual address: “I am setting the task of ensuring the
implementation of the Third Modernisation of Kazakhstan. It is necessary to create a new model of economic growth
that will ensure the country's global competitiveness. He added: “This modernisation is not a plan to combat current
global challenges, but a reliable bridge to the future, to meet the objectives of Kazakhstan 2050 Strategy. It will be
carried out on the basis of the 100 Concrete Steps Plan of the Nation.” The Head of State also instructed the
Government to develop a package of measures for the technological re-equipment of basic industries by 2025. Of
these five priorities, the first was the one that tackles with the issue of automation with the aim to accelerate the
technological modernization of the economy. This goes beyond the ambition of having a prosperous digital sector by
welcoming the incorporation of innovative technologies, such as 3D-printing, artificial intelligence, and mobile
banking, into sectors that have not been traditionally suited to technological advancements.By so doing, we hope to
modernize the labor market while significantly increasing productivity and efficiency—through policies that
encourage automation and the exchange of relevant data, for example.

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 Republic of Kazakhstan

International Labour Organisation

Committee: International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Country: Republic of Kazakhstan
School: West Visayas State University
Delegate: Danny Dy Quioyo