07 June 2004 15:25
Russian Urals region to clamp down on managers for wage arrears
[Presenter] Criminal prosecutions have been started against ten mangers of enterprises in Sverdlovsk Region for
non-payment of wages.
Here reporting by telephone is Artem Kovalenko.
[Correspondent] Sverdlovsk occupies first place in the Urals Federal District in terms of money owed by enterprises
and various other organizations to their workers, according to the deputy prosecutor-general for the Urals Federal
District, Yuriy Zolotov.
In some cases the debts of employers to their workers has reached R1m. Inspections by prosecutors have shown that
managers disregard workers' rights to receive salaries on time, and use the money for other purposes.
For example, in Nizhniy Serginskiy District workers of the agricultural cooperative Niva did not receive wages for
several months. At the same time, the management of the company were paid bonuses. A criminal case has been opened
against the chairman of the cooperative for the non-payment of wages. This man is now on the federal wanted list.
One of the mangers of the Krasnoufimsk construction and assembly company Gorizont did not pay workers their wages,
and regularly took money from the firm's cash box for his own requirements.
In the Kirovskiy district of Yekaterinburg, the head of the [shoe company] Uralobuv is the subject of a criminal
investigation. The salary debt to employees has reached several million roubles.
The governor of Sverdlovsk Region, Eduard Rossel, has said that in the near future, 223 people will be prosecuted for
not paying wages on time.
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