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The Russian Ministry of Labor does not plan to increase quotas for foreign labor this year, but is planning to develop a mechanism for organized recruitment, for which a corresponding bill will be submitted to the State Duma in the near future, Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov said in an interview with Interfax.
"The quota is determined for the year by the corresponding act of the government. Within these 235 thousand, determined by the quota, a certain reserve was laid down, which allows for the redistribution of the quota between regions and enterprises within the year. We do not see the need to increase quotas this year yet," Kotyakov said, answering the agency's corresponding question.
At the same time, he noted that “it is impossible to directly translate the need for personnel into the potential volume of quotas or the need for migrants.”
"Work to cover the labor shortage is complex. But for us, the absolute priority is to cover the need through domestic labor resources. And only secondarily, we can talk about attracting labor resources from abroad. At the same time, we need to fundamentally change our approaches to attracting foreign labor. And such work is underway," said the head of the Ministry of Labor.
Kotyakov clarified that “we are talking about organized recruitment, that is, about increasing the targeted nature of attracting foreign labor.”
"We need to give priority not to abstract workers, but to employees who come to a specific workplace. In this area, even with a large personnel need, we cannot put safety and control on the back burner and neglect them. We are currently developing a new procedure together with the Ministry of Digital Development and other colleagues," the minister said.
"Here, information technology should come to our aid. Some of the legislative initiatives have already been adopted by the State Duma, and we will soon adopt some in the government and submit them to parliament. I am now talking about the bill on organized recruitment itself," he explained.
At the same time, Kotyakov emphasized that at present “there is a need for the most efficient use of our internal labor resources.”
"And we have identified young people as the most promising age group, since the employment rate among people under 29 has the potential for active growth. Therefore, we are working with educational institutions to form a structure of admission control figures that meet employers' requests, and we are also working with universities and SPO (secondary vocational education – IF) to support and navigate young people already at the stage of their training for specific jobs," said Kotyakov.
The draft law on organized recruitment was submitted by the Ministry of Labor for public discussion in March 2024, but was then sent back for revision.
