{"id":11022,"date":"2026-04-20T18:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/20\/tajikistan-approves-520-afghan-workers-quota-2024\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:00:26","slug":"tajikistan-approves-520-afghan-workers-quota-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/04\/20\/tajikistan-approves-520-afghan-workers-quota-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Tajikistan Approves Quota to Employ 520 Afghan Workers in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tajik media have reported that Tajikistan has approved a quota to employ 520 Afghan workers for the current year. According to these reports, the majority of these workers will be employed in the capital city of Tajikistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to published information, out of these 520 workers, 420 will be employed in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, while the remaining will be hired in other designated areas. Further details regarding the types of jobs and sectors have not yet been made public.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Tajikistan, like some other countries in the region, has turned to recruiting migrant workers to compensate for labor shortages in certain sectors. Previously, several countries had also announced their readiness to employ Afghan workers in various job fields.<\/p>\n<p>Economic experts have welcomed this move, viewing it as an opportunity to reduce unemployment and increase family incomes in Afghanistan. However, they also emphasize the necessity of transparent management and control over this process. They believe the Taliban administration must coordinate with responsible agencies to ensure that the deployment of workers is conducted in an organized and responsible manner, preventing potential abuses and guaranteeing the workers\u2019 rights in the host country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tajikistan approves quota to employ 520 Afghan workers in 2024, mostly in Dushanbe, aiming to reduce unemployment and boost Afghan family incomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-migrant-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}