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Not a federal matter
Yuri Luzhkov asks to return the employment service to Moscow
The Moscow authorities intend to appeal to the president and government with a request to return the employment service to the city subordination. As you know, in 2001 the capital's employment fund was abolished, and the services of the corresponding department changed subordination and began to be financed from the federal budget. As a result, yesterday at a meeting of the Moscow government, a program to save the unemployment service itself was discussed.According to the head of the department of the Federal Employment Service for Moscow, Sergei Dudnikov, funding for its structure was reduced by two and a half times (from 2.5 to 1 billion rubles), programs for creating new jobs ceased to exist, and specialized personnel centers for youth, children and military personnel transferred to the reserve.
In March, the salary of personnel center employees was about 1,600 rubles, whereas before the “perestroika” initiated by the feds it exceeded 5 thousand.
Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Topilin, invited to the mayor’s office, explained all this by the objective difficulties of the transition period, the absence in the law “On Employment” of instructions that services should be engaged in job creation, and protracted negotiations with the Ministry of Finance. After this, Mr. Topilin asked Moscow for financial assistance, or rather, co-financing of programs to combat unemployment. However, the capital's mayor, with poorly concealed triumph, refused him. “We will not participate in resource provision in this form,” Mr. Luzhkov said. - We warned you: you will fail this business. Now decide! Then the Moscow mayor, calling employment “the atmosphere of life in the city,” called for a radical solution to the problem, namely, the transfer back of the service from federal to city subordination.