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Moscow May Have Fewer Migrant Workers
First Deputy Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin has been quoted as saying that the city could get by without migrant workers, according to the Complex for Architecture, Construction, Development and Reconstruction of Moscow. “Moscow has to orient itself toward its own construction workers,” Resin said. “Why should someone from Tambov work in Moscow, if he can receive the same salary in Tambov for building the same buildings?... The most important thing is to increase the number of students in construction colleges by several times. If we don't do that in the coming years, we will simply be left without builders.”
According to the Complex for Architecture, Construction, Development and Reconstruction of Moscow, the need for new construction workers in Moscow will double by 2015 to 24,500 people. That agency is already working with the city's department of education to provide more training in schools. In addition, 10 percent of the construction workforce already begins its professional activity in a practical program between builders and trade schools and the Complex for Architecture, Construction, Development and Reconstruction is involved in maintaining programs at city construction organizations, in which over 36,000 people were trained last year.
A special city commission for cooperation and supervision of the labor of workers from other countries and cities is being set up that will tighten the reins over migrant construction workers in Moscow. It will especially look after the enforcement of Russian labor law on that job market. It will be headed by the Moscow city department of construction policy, development and reconstruction Sergey Omelchenko. About 1 million people work in construction in Moscow today. Of those, about 200,000 are foreigners.
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