INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russias federal government is planning to resume significant layoffs of public sector workers next year after they were postponed due to the
Covid-19 pandemic and full-blown invasion of Ukraine, the Kommersant organization newspaperreported Monday.Authorities started state service
optimization reforms in 2019, which at the time saw around 10% of federal civil servant lose their tasks in the middle of a digitization
rollout in the public sector.President Vladimir Putinsigned a decree last month ordering the territorial branches of federal government
companies to cut personnel by 10% no behind July 1, 2025
This newest round of layoffs is expected to free up moneying to supply remaining staff members with greater salaries.Around 400,000 people
presently operate in the territorial departments of Russias federal firms, which Kommersant stated amounts to around 0.5% of the nations
Some companies may be able to reach the layoff target by cutting unfilled positions, the paper wrote.Those employees earn usually 60,300
rubles ($614) each month, or 45% less than their coworkers in federal agencies, according to Kommersant, pointing out a government document
Earnings could increase as much as 80,000 rubles each month depending upon the number of staff members are impacted.The layoffs will not
affect staff members of Russia-installed administrations in the 4 partially occupied Ukrainian regions Moscow declares to have annexed soon
after introducing the full-blown invasion in February 2022.
