The trade union of OAO SUAL’s Ural smelter (UAZ) placed its disapproval of the new pay and bonuses plan for Kamensk-Uralskiy-based Rus-Engineering’s workers with the employer. According to their press service, the negotiations between the trade union and UAZ’s management did not end in a consensus, so the two parties signed a protocol of disagreement. The trade union believes the bonus-paying scheme must be very clear so that every employee could know exactly what kind of work performance will be awarded with a premium. For one, the current plan does not state that the monthly bonuses can

The date for appointing the new head of The Industrial Urals-The Polar Urals Corporation has not been set yet. At the moment, former Deputy GD Remir Mukumov is still the corporation’s acting General Director. ‘I don’t think the fact that the corporation does not have a GD at the moment is an issue. The company’s real problem is the need to launch its projects quite soon,’ Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District Nikolai Vinnichenko said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg. ‘Nevertheless, we can’t make mistakes in choosing the top executive. We

According to the cargo manifests processed by Nizhniy Tagil Customs in the first quarter of 2010, 111 local businesses dealt in foreign trade at that time. These companies produced 3,730 cargo manifests on goods subject to customs declaration. The city’s trade turnover with the countries of the CIS rose by 67.5%. On the other hand, the turnover of goods to and from the countries of the far abroad decreased as Nizhniy Tagil business community exported less to China, Germany, India, Iran, the Netherlands, and Thailand and imported fewer goods from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, and

‘Baldinini footwear belongs to the premium class and luxury market segments. Our customers are normally twenty-somethings, the so-called gilded youth, and people aged thirty to thirty five who run their own business. On average, a pair of shoes costs 11,000 to 15,000 RUR. Last year we noticed that our customers grew more thoughtful and careful in their shopping behavior. A lot of people, including our visitors, felt extremely unstable last year, but now everybody appears to be more relaxed,’ the manager of Baldinini shops in Yekaterinburg Nadezhda Luzyanina informed UrBC. ‘Our sales did go

The Ural division of Rostechnadzor (the state environmental, technological, and nuclear safety watchdog) completed its inspection of OAO Vysokogorskiy Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (VGOK, member of Evraz Group). Sixty-seven violations of the existing industrial safety regulations were detected and eliminated at the plant in the course of the inspection. VGOK and fifteen of its executives had to face administrative liability and pay a total of 37,000 RUR in fines, the spokesperson for Rostechnadzor says. The inspecting committee reports the enterprise does organize and control the