Comparing Trade Union Laws and Labour Protections in the Commercial Realms of Malaysia and Kazakhstan

This article analyzed the specifics of the Federation of Malaysia and the Republic of Kazakhstan, as two lead contemporaries of the developing world, espousing correct measures to regulate the relationship between trade unions and labour force. Kazakhstan, which has emerged as a multi-confessional and multi-ethnic specificity, it is imperative to explore the experience of peer countries. In this context, Malaysia, an Asian Tiger economy, has her own experience in maintaining the relationship between state and religion. Kazakhstan, emerging as a lead Asian-Panther in the first quarter of the 21^st century, focused on improving the state’s policy on trade unions, regulating the activities of labour associations in view of international trade requirements, while defining the complex aspects of the relationship between trade unions and labour. Kazakhstan differentiated her model of a CIS country dominated by the representatives of Internationalization. Hitherto, the country chosen for comparison was Malaysia, which has excellent development indicators. The current study determined the specific features of the two countries in the in terms of trade and union composition, the structure of public administration, labour rights, activities of labour associations, dialogue and volume, the urge to upgrade standards of the trade cycle via historical and comparative analysis.