The operator of the organizational recruitment of labor migrants will be the state company “Work in Russia”

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of Russia proposed to appoint the state company “Work in Russia” as the operator of the organized recruitment of labor migrants. Together with Rostrud, the department developed a draft presidential decree on regulating the company’s work, reported TASS press service of the department.

Work in Russia will become a state recruitment agency and will enter into agreements with employers who hire migrants as part of organized recruitment. The company will also be responsible for the register of such employers and help them with the selection of employees and monitor the employment of migrants.

“The proposed mechanism will make it possible to select employees taking into account qualifications, and will also eliminate situations where an employee who comes to one employer, after completing all the necessary documents, enters the open labor market,” the Ministry of Labor explained. “Work in Russia” must monitor violations of the regime of stay of foreign citizens with the employer, as well as his labor rights.

In March the Ministry of Labor offered create a public company for the organized targeted recruitment of foreign workers and finalize the mechanism to increase the protection of employers. Targeted organizational recruitment should become a priority mechanism for labor activities carried out by foreigners.

According to the Ministry of Labor, if an employer terminates an employment contract with a foreigner hired for a targeted recruitment, he will be obliged to leave the Russian Federation within 30 days or enter into an agreement with a new employer. The department believes that in this way companies that have suffered financial losses while transporting a foreign employee will receive additional protection.

Read more about the initiative of the Ministry of Labor in the Kommersant FM article “Migrants will be offered a targeted package.”

Lusine Balasyan