Sverdlovsk Region: Wage Arrears Reach RUR 822,000

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 17, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region-based employers owed their workers 9.437m RUR in terms of delayed wages and salaries as of October 1, 2016; this was 16.3 times more than one year earlier. According to Sverdlovskstat, the overall amount of wage arrears rose by 1.8% by October 1, 2016 compared with September 1, 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 18, 2017. The amount of delayed wages and salaries owed by Sverdlovsk Oblast-based employers to their workers amounted to RUR 17.8m on December 1, 2017, which was 2.9 times more than one year earlier. All in all, four local companies reported their wage arrears issues to Sverdlovskstat. These businesses owed RUR 13.658m to their 963 employees. For one, one of the steel-smelting enterprises in the area owed its 644 workers RUR 9.234 in unpaid wages. Companies dealing in heating power production, driver training, and freight forwarding also failed to pay all of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 11, 2015. As of November 1, 2015, Sverdlovsk Region-based employers owed their workers 14,702,000 RUR in delayed wages and salaries, Sverdlovskstat reports. It is reported the number is 25.4 times more than in the previous quarter and 2.7 times more than a year earlier. Most of the workers whose wages haven’t been paid in time are employed within the processing industry sector: 460 employees are owed 13.4m RUR all in all. Also, 140 people working in the production and distribution of electric power, natural gas, and water are owed 1.268m RUR.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 16, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region-based businesses and organizations owed their employees 14.3% more in unpaid wages and salaries on April 1, 2018 compared with one month earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. ‘According to data provided by companies outside the small-business sector, their consolidated arrears of wages amounted to RUR 1.5m, which was RUR 189,000 more than on March 1, 2018,’ the agency says.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 20, 2019. Sverdlovsk Region-based employers owed their workers RUB 20.1 in delayed pay as of August 1, 2019, which exceeded the figures for one month earlier by 2.1%, Rosstat reports. In Russia on the whole, the arrears of wages amounted to RUB 2.7526bn in July, which was RUB 182.9m (7.1%) more than in June 2019. Wages and salaries were owed to 42,500 workers (under 1% of the workforce in the segments involved in Rosstat’s research). 46% of these workers are employed in the processing industry, 17% in the construction sector, 12% in the fossil extraction sector,