Ministry of Labor and Social Security of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Hereinafter - Ministry) is a central government administration body in the area of employment, labor, social protection and social maintenance of population and in its activities reports to the Cabinet of Ministers.

Main tasks of the ministry are as follows:

• Forming and realization of a single social policy, dedicated for maintaining stable and progressive improvement of material welfare of the people, strengthening social protection of population in conditions of further liberization of the economy;
• Working out and control over accomplishment of demographic development forecasts, carrying out effective policies for forming the labor market and maintaining full employment, especially among young generation, working out target programs for creating new labor vacancies and staff training on the basis of labor resources balances;
• Drawing up measures for regulating labor relationships in accordance with the market conditions; improving conditions, systems for organization safety and norms of the work;
• Implementation of the activities for maintenance of functioning social security for pensioners, incapable people, families with many children and poor families, development and realization of effective techniques of targeted social protection of socially vulnerable part of the population;
• Organization and administration of social guarantees, supervision of activities of medic-social expertise and rehabilitation of disabled services, organization of the prosthesis orthopedic assistance to the population.