The queue for the reservation - Newspaper Kommersant No. 177 (7378) dated 09/26/2022

The queue for the reservation - Newspaper Kommersant No. 177 (7378) dated 09/26/2022



Workers in IT, communications, the media, as well as organizations that ensure the stability of the national payment system and financial market infrastructure, will be the first, apart from workers in the defense industry, to receive armor from partial mobilization. The Ministry of Defense announced the corresponding decision on Friday. According to Kommersant, after them, pilots, air traffic controllers and sailors have already lined up for a deferment. Electronics manufacturers have requested reservations for their specialists, and associations of pharmaceutical companies are going to do the same soon. A number of large coal enterprises, working "in the field", have already managed to keep at work up to a third of especially valuable workers who had previously received subpoenas from military registration and enlistment offices.

The Ministry of Defense on Friday listed the industries whose workers will be exempted from partial mobilization. Earlier, we recall, it was about armor only for those working in organizations of the military-industrial complex, “issued” by them directly by a mobilization presidential decree. Now they are joined by employees of information technology enterprises, Russian telecom operators, backbone organizations in the field of information, including the media, as well as companies that ensure the stability of the national payment system and financial market infrastructure. Like later noted Mintsifra, representatives of "priority high-tech sectors of the economy" receive a reprieve.

It is not yet clear which specialties will fall under the exemption. Clarity will come most quickly, apparently, in IT, communications and media. The Ministry of Digital Transformation announced that no later than September 26 it would publish a list of specialties “supervised” by it that would receive the right to deferment, and said that they would be able to apply for booking of company employees on the public services portal. In this case, we will talk about employees of accredited IT companies, telecom and media operators who have higher education and work full time. The media should be included in the list of backbone organizations involved in the production and dissemination of information products. Let us clarify that such a list was approved in June 2020 as part of government measures to overcome the consequences of the pandemic and contains a limited number of the largest media.

It is likely that the matter will not be limited to the four named industries - representatives of other sectors of the economy will also try to hire their workers.

Yes, producers electronics already turned to the government on this issue, motivating the need for exemption from partial mobilization "by the interests of the sustainable development of the Russian electronics industry."

Active in this part and transport workers. Miroslav Boichuk, president of the flight crew trade union, told Kommersant that as a result of joint work with the Ministry of Transport, a list of industry workers who should not be subject to partial mobilization will be created. “Most civilian pilots will continue to work, and air transport will continue to function,” he stressed. As the president of the Federal Trade Union of Aviation Dispatchers of Russia, Sergei Kovalev, told Kommersant, work on compiling lists of specialists who should be released from mobilization is also underway here - however, so far the trade union has not received a response from the Ministry of Transport on this issue.

They are also preparing their appeal to the government seafarers' union, its head Igor Kovalchuk told Kommersant. “The draft may affect up to 40% of the crew members of Russian ships, but there is practically no one to replace the specialists, whose training takes seven to ten years,” he notes. In the coming days, the authorities of the association of Russian and foreign pharmaceutical companies will ask the same thing, a source in the industry told Kommersant. “Pharmaceutical production is provided by highly qualified personnel, who cannot be replaced in the labor market,” he says.

As the head told "Kommersant" miners union Ivan Mokhnachuk, a number of large coal enterprises of the Russian Federation, where several hundred workers received summons to the military registration and enlistment office, have already managed to achieve the preservation of up to a third of them in production, operating with existing legal norms. “Employers, together with the military enlistment offices, coordinated the lists of those who go to the front by name, and were able to achieve the opportunity to continue working for the most valuable of them,” he explained. According to a representative of a large recruitment company, “there are organizations where employees literally throw lots on which of them the employer needs to recognize as especially valuable and leave at work, and somewhere HR directors are forced to deal with the selection.”

In the meantime, after the uncertainty of the first days of mobilization, the accompanying legal framework is gradually emerging.

A government decree published on Friday allows employers to suspend labor and service contracts of mobilized workers, but prohibits breaking them, which was possible under the current Labor Code (LC).

Also on Friday, the State Duma joined the rule-making in this area. According to the amendments to the Labor Code made by the deputies, the mobilized will be able to recover at their former place of work within three months after their return, and the period of military service will be credited to them in the insurance record. For the period of service, family members of the mobilized will receive an advantage in maintaining jobs in the event of a staff reduction, they cannot be involved in overtime work and business trips without their consent.

Elena Kozhemyakina, Managing Partner at BLS Law Firm, notes that employees who are in idle mode now have similar rights. “The list of benefits and compensations that employers must provide is already quite large, and companies must again finance state initiatives from their own resources,” complains a Kommersant source in the Russian Tripartite Commission. According to him, the Ministry of Labor did not hold any preliminary consultations on new labor standards with the participation of employers or trade unions, “which means that for the ministry, as well as for the whole country, the decision to mobilize was a big surprise.”

It should be noted that the unexpectedness of what is happening for state structures and the lack of pre-mobilization preparation, apparently, should be attributed to part of the "excesses of mobilization" - its extension to the personnel of industrial companies, which is critical for the performance of their functions: in many respects, the Soviet system of forming "armor" is hardly somehow rationally adapted to the needs of a significantly changed economy, and only where it was actively corrected, for example, in aviation (see "Kommersant" dated September 22) is probably adequate.

The chaos and competitive initiative of the regions in this area can significantly increase the long-term economic losses from “partial mobilization”, which are simply impossible to assess yet, especially in conditions when the mobilization campaign does not involve an active transfer of the economy “on a war footing”.

It should be noted that by Sunday, certain steps were taken by the authorities to prevent "mobilization" chaos at many levels - from Crimea's statement about the achieved goals of the mobilization campaign and its termination in the region to the presidential decree on granting a deferment from the mobilization of students and graduate students. Nevertheless, restoring consistency in this process will apparently be a very difficult task.

Anastasia Manuylova, Vadim Visloguzov, Dmitry Butrin



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