Oil industry workers in Kazakhstan to get pay rise

ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Kazakhstan's oil giant - KazMunayGas JSC is planning to raise salaries as of April 1, 2014.

CEO of the company Mr. Sauat Mynbayev announced Tuesday at a press briefing in Astana.

"The company will introduce a uniform system of payment to even the salaries and offer a 10% pay rise to its employers," he said.

According to Mr. Mynbayev, the bigger paychecks will be chiefly offered to ordinary workers, not to company's top management.