Arrears of wages increased by almost a billion rubles – Russian newspaper

Arrears heads of enterprises and companies to its employees for the first three months of 2015 increased by 940 million rubles. Now it is 2.9 billion rubles, according to the materials Rosstat. However, according to experts “RG”, sound the alarm early: a sharp increase in debt is traditional for the beginning of each year.

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According to the April 1, debts to employees are 616 organizations. It’s 246 companies more than at the beginning of the year. Their wages are waiting for 76.2 thousand people.

The biggest debts to employees are organizations working in the field of mining and manufacturing industries, as well as in agriculture and industry.

Meanwhile, agricultural enterprises have reduced the percentage of debt to employees compared to the previous month. A similar trend to reduce debt demonstrates the scope of real estate management, health and fisheries.

However, the experts “RG” say that there is no reason to worry – the difficult economic situation is only partly influenced the growth of debt. The sharp rise in debt is traditional for the first quarter of each year. And if you compare these figures with the entire payroll Fund of Russia, the debt is only 0.5 percent of this amount.

Dolgov could be much more if the heads of many companies just do not have adopted a number of anti-crisis measures. For example, the “frozen” or indexing transferred its employees to work part time. Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin said on the eve of an increase in the number of workers employed part-time, now they are in Russia 300 thousand people.

It is a good idea, said in an interview with “Rossiyskaya Gazeta” First Deputy CEO “National Center for Life” Nikolai Volgin – people do not lose their jobs, employers retain their minimum wage, even in such a difficult situation.

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