Tajikistan authorities have set a foreign employee quota for this year.
By president’s decree of April 17, 2023, which is posted on the Justice Ministry’s website for legal information, this year’s foreign employee quota is set at 7,500 people.
A dependency ratio ceiling, or quota, is the maximum ratio of foreign employees to the total workforce that a company in a given sector can employ.
The document notes that this quota does not include foreign citizens, employed for priority projects and investment sectoral agreements on the basis of government-to-government and interstate acts.
As usual, most places are given to Chinese nationals – 4,950 (66 percent of a total number of places). Besides, 550 places are given to citizens of Afghanistan; Iran – 300; Uzbekistan – 250; Russia – 230; Turkiye – 200, Kyrgyzstan and Pakistan – 130 each; India – 120; Kazakhstan – 100; others – 540.
Most of foreign workers are given the right to work in Dushanbe – 3,453; districts subordinate to the center (RRP) – 1,572; Khatlon province – 1,235; Sughd province – 1,090; and the Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Region (GBAO) – 150.
The foreign employee quotas are provided for the following economic sectors of Tajikistan: construction — 3,038; industry – 2,145; trade – 565; agriculture – 230; education – 195; geology – 185; public catering – 160; transport – 125; housing and public services – 95; energy – 85; health care – 75; sports – 45; others sectors – 483.
Last year, the foreign employee quota was also set at 7,500 people and most places were given to Chinese nationals (more than 60 percent).
