UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 22, 2015. The number of Sverdlovsk Region’s unemployed came to 31,608 people by December 1, 2015, which is almost 7,000 people more than a year earlier, the local Labor & Employment Department reports. The official unemployment rate was registered at 1.39% this December (against 1.08% in December 2015). The overall number of job-seekers came to 149,887 people by December 1, 2015, with the overall unemployment rate at 6.5%. 89 companies informed the local employment agencies of 12,129 upcoming redundancies between January and November 2015. Also,131 companies

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 22, 2015. 46,000 job patents for foreign workers were issued by Sverdlovsk Region authorities in the eleven months of 2015; this was 13,000 less than one year earlier, head of the Federal Migration Service’s local division Elena Otinova said at a press conference. ‘The figures mainly went down because of the economic crisis and the new, stricter standards of migration laws. Despite this negative trend, Sverdlovsk Region is doing noticeably better than our neighboring constituencies. All in all, the number of job migrants in the Mid-Urals declined only

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 22, 2015. ChTPZ Group’s Training Center, whose job is to offer dual-education training to meet the company’s blue-collar worker needs, launched its own website at www.bbmprof.ru, the company press service reports. ‘Making a presence on the Internet signifies another important step in the development of the Future of White Metallurgy, our corporate training program. The new site offers all the relevant information on all the types of training we provide and is expected to become the focal point of our student and social life,’ says the center’s head Andrei

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 22, 2015. Alexander Chaderin, a start-up technician for NC machines at LEPSE (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) won the first prize as Kirov Region’s Best Worker. According to the corporation’s press service, Chaderin’s photograph, along with those of 59 other best workers in their respective professional fields, will be displayed at Glory Alley in Kirov’s main square. ‘Alexander Chaderni has been working with NC machines for over three decades; he invests in his own continuous professional development, masters all the new and modern equipment,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 22, 2015. Nizhniy Tagil Council ruled that Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant had the best civil defense and emergency prevention practices in 2015. The company press service reports the winner’s certificate and the prize cup were given to the plant’s Senior Engineer Yuri Shangin by head of the city council’s Civil Defense Department Andrei Zhbanov and Deputy Mayor for Construction Konstantin Zakharov. The second prize went to Uralcryomash, also a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation. The awarding ceremony took place during the training drill