Payroll - Newspaper Kommersant No. 180 (7381) dated 09/29/2022

Payroll - Newspaper Kommersant No. 180 (7381) dated 09/29/2022



The Central Bank began to form lists of bank employees applying for a reservation from partial mobilization. For the formation of the lists, two main criteria were established - the presence of higher education from the employee and the critical importance of his work. According to the regulator, such a list could include no more than 30% of the number of personnel of a credit institution. According to Kommersant's data, at least 1,000 employees are potentially subject to mobilization in each of the top 5 banks.

The Bank of Russia has asked credit institutions for lists of employees who may fall under the partial mobilization announced on September 21, but may qualify for a reservation, six Kommersant sources told Kommersant. According to Kommersant, the request was received by all systemically important banks, and in total - about a hundred credit institutions and banking groups. The banks were supposed to send the lists to the regulator on Wednesday, September 28.

As two interlocutors of Kommersant specify, there were two main criteria for the formation of the list - the presence of a higher education from an employee and the critical importance of his work. There was no separate list of vacancies.

As another interlocutor of Kommersant points out, similar lists are compiled by insurance organizations. On September 28, the All-Russian Union of Insurers (ARI) reported that its president, Igor Yurgens, turned to the chairman of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, with a request for assistance in including employees of insurance companies and professional associations of insurers in the list of positions and professions subject to temporary exemption from mobilization.

Last Friday, it became known that employees of the financial sector, "employed in critical areas," would be exempted from mobilization. But such a decision will be made on the basis of the lists submitted to the General Staff. From the financial sector, employees of organizations "ensuring the stability of the national payment system and financial market infrastructure, bank liquidity management, cash circulation" will receive reservations, the Ministry of Defense explained last week. According to the Chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, "such employees of the financial sector include specialists responsible for critical infrastructure, payments and settlements, collection, operation and protection of information systems, duty shift workers and specialists working with the population and enterprises."

On September 21, 2022, a partial mobilization in the country was announced by decree of the President of the Russian Federation. Reserve officers, privates and sergeants are called up with the following age restrictions: privates, sergeants - up to 35 years old; junior officers - up to 50 years; senior officers - up to 55 years. Women can be called up for the positions of medical workers and some other military specialties. In accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, within the framework of partial mobilization, in particular, specialists working in organizations that ensure the stability of the national payment system and financial market infrastructure, bank liquidity management, and cash circulation will not be called up.

At the beginning of September 2022, there were 361 credit institutions in Russia. The number of bank employees may exceed 600 thousand people, according to Kommersant's calculations based on quarterly reports on securities for mid-2021. According to Alexei Voilukov, vice-president of the Association of Banks of Russia, at the beginning of the week there was a meeting with the first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia, Dmitry Tulin, as a result of which a list of banks was formed to which the letter was sent. “These lists will be sent to the General Staff centrally through the Central Bank,” says Mr. Voylukov.

At the same time, according to one of Kommersant's interlocutors, based on the explanations of the Central Bank, it followed that no more than 30% of the number of personnel of a credit institution should be included in such a list. As Nikita Filippov, head of the De Jure Law Office, notes, “for small banks, losing a small but significant number of staff, when they have only a few specialists in each category, can lead to the loss of a real job opportunity and, as a result, to the collapse activities of their clients. At the same time, for large banks, the ability to “redistribute resources and allow the mobilization of even a fairly large number of personnel may be an easier process,” the expert notes. Indeed, for each type of activity “there is a greater number of employees of homogeneous specializations,” the expert explains. According to one of Kommersant's interlocutors in the banking market, in each of the five largest banks, at least 1,000 employees are formally mobilized.

Officially, the bankers prefer not to comment on the mobilization. The Central Bank did not answer Kommersant's questions.

Olga Sherunkova, Maxim Builov, Ksenia Dementieva



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