Senate rejects law "On Foreign Labor Migration"

The law "On Foreign Labor Migration" was discussed at the next plenary session of the Senate. Reportedly, there are many issues in the law that need to be revised.

The Senate drew attention to the fact that the law contradicts the norms of the Tax Code, equating the status of citizens who leave Uzbekistan for temporary work with self-employed persons and applying the same procedure for them when calculating taxes and the amount of pension.

Also, the law stipulates that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Service have the same powers in the field of foreign labor migration, that is, to participate in the fight against illegal foreign labor migration.

According to the regulation on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs approved by the decision of the President of Uzbekistan No. PQ-3654 of April 5, 2018, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not assigned the tasks of directly "fighting" or "participating in the fight" against illegal processes and factors.

Since such powers belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Service, which are law enforcement agencies, the scope of this authority given to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become abstract.

The law requires more than 15 important conceptual, substantive and editorial amendments, a number of cases of non-compliance with legal and technical formalization rules, various spelling errors and mutual inconsistencies in the texts of the norms in Uzbek and Russian languages. So it was deemed necessary to be revised.