OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 May 2009 was announced, that Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov signed the Law of Turkmenistan "On approval and introduction of the Labor Code of Turkmenistan". Turkmen central mass media published the text of the Code.

Under the law, the approved Labor Code of Turkmenistan will take effect from 1 July 2009. A number of laws on labor and labor protection adopted and amended in the period from 1972 to date will expire on the day the new Code takes effect.

"Laws and other normative legal acts of Turkmenistan awaiting alignment with the Labor Code of Turkmenistan are valid as long as they do not contradict with the Labor Code of Turkmenistan," the document says.

The government of Turkmenistan has been instructed to bring the normative legal acts of Turkmenistan in accordance with the Labor Code of Turkmenistan within 3 months.