The conciliation commission and labour disputes. Negotiation skills, reaching consensus in labour conflicts

Programme

The conciliation commission — a pre-trial body for settling labour disputes

• What a conciliation commission is and its main role in organisations
• In which organisations it is set up
• The goals of the conciliation commission
• The employer's responsibility for setting up a conciliation commission
• Who does not apply to the conciliation commission
• The competencies of the conciliation commission
• Which questions the conciliation commission resolves
• The mediating role of the conciliation commission
• The court risks of the parties to a labour dispute
• Mandatory annual certified training for the conciliation commission

Labour disputes

• Individual labour disputes
• Collective labour disputes
• Types of labour disputes
• A direct violation or a labour dispute
• The labour inspectorate or the court?

Setting up a conciliation commission

• Electing members of the conciliation commission
• Employee representatives
• Employer representatives
• Electing the chair and secretary, their role in the work of the conciliation commission
• Mediators of the parties in resolving the labour dispute
• The agreement on the work of the conciliation commission
• The person responsible for preparing the conciliation commission's meeting

Fundamentals of labour legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the conciliation commission

• Regulatory legal documentation of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the field of pre-trial settlement of labour conflicts
• Labour legislation in the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Overview of the Regulatory Resolution of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Kazakhstan of 24 November 2025 No. 1 «On certain issues of courts applying legislation when resolving labour disputes»
• Documentation of the conciliation commission

Negotiations of the conciliation commission

• The behavioural role of the conciliation commission
• Mistakes in negotiating labour conflicts
• Five steps to reaching consensus
• Registering the employee's application and the deadlines for making a decision
• Holding a meeting of the conciliation commission
• The conciliation commission's decision
• Deadlines in the work of the conciliation commission
• Mistakes in holding the meeting and in the conciliation commission's decision, court risks
• Managing emotions in negotiations
• Ways, methods and strategies in negotiations

Cases of labour disputes, as well as pre-trial and court practice

• Amending the terms of the employment contract
• Reinstatement at work
• Termination of the employment contract on the employer's initiative: staff reduction, absenteeism, disciplinary sanctions, violation of labour duties, loss of trust, material damage, etc.
• Suspending an employee from work
• Downtime at work
• Violation of non-competition and trade secret terms
• Dismissal for failing the probationary period
• Transfers and reassignments
• Wages, guarantees and compensation. Withholding wages
• Standards of disciplinary liability in matters of staff management. Disciplinary sanctions: types, procedure for imposing, appealing and lifting
• The employer's risks in the case of violating the procedure for bringing employees to disciplinary liability
• Material liability and its types. Conditions for the material liability of a party to the employment contract to arise for causing damage (harm)