The Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation proposes to set up a state-owned company to operate an organized recruitment of labor migrants.
The state-run news company TASS, citing the Labor Ministry’s press center, says the Labor Ministry jointly with Rostrud (the Federal Service for Labor and Employment) developed a president’s draft decree on setting up the Work in Russia Company that will be will be under government control and “through which migrants will enter into agreements with employers as part of organized recruitment.”
Besides, this state-owned company will maintain registers of employers and also recruit employees and monitor the employment of migrants.
The company will inform the relevant authorities “about cases of violation by a foreign worker of the regime of stay with employer and situations where an employer violates a migrant’s labor rights.”
Meanwhile, trade unions, in response to the Ministry of Labor’s proposal to set up the Work in Russia Company for the organized recruitment of migrants, outlined their ideas to TASS:
- To obligate companies to publish vacancies for which they want to invite migrants 15 days before applying for them;
- The conditions published in vacancies (salary level, social package, housing) should not change when attracting migrant workers;
- To obligate the Work in Russia Company to organize the departure of the migrant and his family from Russia after the end of the contract.
