Ilsur Metshin: “The labor market in Kazan is stable, but we still have work to do”

(KZN.RU, October 24, Alsu Safina). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, instructed the Committee of Economic Development together with the specialists of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the RT, the Kazan employment center and the prosecutor's office to work out a solution that stimulates employers to apply vacancies on the Kazan employment service today at the Business Monday.

Marat Khairullin, the director of the Kazan Center of the population employment, said that 17 thousand vacancies are in the data base for today. 4380 people were registered as unemployed in the city on October 1, so there is one unemployed for 3 free workplaces. However, the proposals with low salary (10-20 thousand rubles) prevail among vacancies.

“We started the year with the anxiety caused by the economic crisis, afraid of increasing in the number of unemployed, but the statistics is that we have reduced the number of unemployed as compared with the previous year. The labor market is stable, but we still have work to do for improving of the situation on the labor market”, said Ilsur Metshin.

One of the questions that the Mayor had was: why only 2% of employers (and this is 1290 from 65 thousand economic subjects) applies their vacancies to the Kazan employment service. According to Marat Khairullin, “others ignore the requirements of the Federal Law “On employment of the population of the Russian Federation”, which affects the completeness of the information about the state of the labor market and job opportunities for unemployed citizens”.

According to the Mayor, it is difficult to achieve 100 per cent in this matter, “there are small enterprises, which today are opened and tomorrow are closed”; however, it is necessary to study in detail the issue with the prosecutor's office of the city. In this regard, Ilsur Metshin instructed to work out a solution to this issue, discussed the subject together with the heads of districts, the Committee for Economic Development, the prosecutor's office, the Center for Employment of Kazan and specialists of the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Protection. “The Center for Employment of the city is working hard. We will take joint steps”, concluded the Mayor.