What other difficulties do employers face?

In addition to the problems of military registration and enlistment offices, companies also have accounting difficulties with their own personnel. According to Alina Neretina, senior labor law lawyer at Unistaff Payroll, companies that provide outsourcing services for military records often encounter the fact that an employee of the client company refuses to provide the necessary data. “Most often this concerns military ID cards. Let us remind you that the absence of military registration documents from a person applying for a job is not specified in the legislation as a circumstance excluding the possibility of employment. If a person liable for military service does not have military registration documents, it is necessary to notify the military registration and enlistment office within the time limits established by law. It is also recommended to notify the employee himself so that he provides military registration documents. Let us note that the employer cannot force the employee to bring a military ID, however, if the employee does not provide it, then he can be subject to disciplinary action (reprimand or reprimand) in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 193 of the Labor Code,” she notes. If an employee has lost his military ID, then he needs to contact the appropriate military commissariat within two weeks to receive documents to replace the lost ones. There is no time frame for restoration in the law, but in practice it takes less than a month. The employer is not obliged to assist in the restoration of military registration documents by the employee.

“In cases where an employee refuses to provide military registration documents, we notify him of his current duties against his signature. If he refuses to sign the notification, an act is drawn up,” says Yulia Tarasova, a member of the General Council of Delovaya Rossiya. Some companies solve problems with military ID even at the stage of hiring a new employee. As Maxim Tretyakov, chairman of the Supports of Russia committee for industry, says, at the Elkat enterprise, where he is the general director, a military ID is mandatory when hiring. “I don’t remember any cases of refusal; if they refuse, we will look for and hire those who agree,” he says.

At the same time, notes Ekaterina Ukhova, head of the HR consulting services group B1, companies sometimes have difficulty appointing a person responsible for maintaining military records. “This is primarily due to the fact that fines for officials will increase significantly, and employees do not want to take on additional responsibility,” she says.

It can be assumed that the current difficulties concern mainly small and medium-sized businesses – many large companies do not have such problems. “There is indeed an increase in demand for services related to outsourcing of military registration of employees in the corporate sector. It would be incorrect to name specific figures here, since now we are talking about the fact that many companies that previously, in principle, did not keep such records in the system and were not registered with the commissariats, began to need such an examination quite suddenly. Severstal – CES, as a large SSC, responsible, in particular, for comprehensive support for the activities of the HR services of the brand itself, as well as within the framework of client projects outside its perimeter, has at its disposal established mechanisms for organizing military registration of employees. So for us and our partners, no significant changes will happen from October 1,” says Alexey Pokidov, head of the personnel service center at Severstal – Unified Service Center.

Anastasia Manuilova