Sverdlovsk Region: 200,000+ Workers in Hazardous Employment

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 11, 2017. Nearly a quarter (23%) of Sverdlovsk Region-based employees feel they are at risk of losing their job, HeadHunter’s research findings indicate. According to HeadHunter, the figure stood at 27% last year. These days, workers in the IT sector feel the most secure, as do those in the tourist and hotel businesses. People employed in the banking industry, however, are afraid of getting fired. ‘Our survey respondents said it is hard enough to find a good job in Sverdlovsk Region these days. Only 4% of those surveyed are positive they will have no trouble at

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 4, 2016. 1,360 people were made redundant in Sverdlovsk Region since the start of 2016, and 1,244 more people working for eighteen different organizations are going to be let go soon, the Legislative Assembly deputy Andrei Alshevskikh refers to the Labor & Employment Department as stating. As of March 2, Yekaterinburg Champagne Factory reported 121 out of 127 workers were made redundant and Giprospetsgaz Ural made 109 out of 109 people redundant. According to the Labor & Employment Department, 770 workers out of jobs have already managed to find new

‘We received 1563 employer applications asking to register their foreign workers in 2005, most of these applications concerning the continuation of existing agreements. Over 20,000 foreign workers were given jobs,’ reported Head of Yekaterinburg Employment Agency Job Allocation Department Margarita Vilesova. ‘The majority of foreign workers are involved in construction industry, namely, 8,641 people. Most of them come from Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and China,’ Ms Vilesova said.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 22, 2011. 43,994 dwellers of Sverdlovsk Region applied to the state employment agencies between January and March 2011, which was 21% less than a year earlier (55,694 people). Between October 1, 2008 and April 1, 2011 344 enterprises reported they were planning to make a total of 57,840 employees redundant due to liquidation or shrinkage, with 45,731 people actually losing their jobs. 20,514 people found new jobs without having to apply to employment agencies, including 6,786 people who found a place within the same companies. 17,391 ex-workers came to the

‘May 25, 2007 was the last day for the regional employers to apply for foreign workers they will need next year; we haven’t been able to process all the figures yet, but what I do know is that there had already been applications for 34,500 people by May 18, 2007,’ director of Sverdlovsk Region Placement Service Vyacheslav Krivel said to UrBC. ‘We’ve cancelled all the quotas for the first time this year; last year, however, 43,000 workers were applied for,’ he said. After the applications have been processed, data on the number of workers will be transferred to an interdepartmental committee