DUSHANBE, May 14, 2009, Asia-Plus  -- In a report released at the meeting of heads of the key ministries of economic and social blocs of Tajikistan with representatives of donor organizations in Dushanbe, Labor and Social Protection Minister Shukurjon Zuhurov revealed on May 13 that more than 30 percent of Tajik returning labor migrants, surveyed by the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, has attributed their returning home to unstable jobs resulting from the global financial crisis.

According to him, the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection has conducted a poll among 6,000 labor migrants that have returned home this year.

“Of those surveyed, 31.7 percent said they had lost their jobs due to the global financial crisis,” said the minister, “Of them, 22.6 percent said they had failed to find new jobs after they had been discharged from their previous jobs and the remaining 9.1 percent said they had been forced to return home because employers had not paid their wages for more than three months”  

He added that the remaining 68.3 percent of those polled had said that they had been sacked for having poor qualifications.