Rostrud will check IKEA, despite the moratorium

Rostrud sent IKEA a warning about the inadmissibility of violations of the labor rights of Russian employees of the company, RBC learned .

According to the publication, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova suggested Rostrud to conduct an inspection “on the fact of violation of the labor rights of IKEA workers” at the end of June. The deputy prime minister's instruction is one of the few exceptions to the moratorium on business inspections introduced by the government in March.

Rostrud said that ensuring the labor rights of IKEA workers is under the control of the department, but there have been no mass appeals from them.

It is possible that the reason for the verification is the publication of Vedomosti about the letter of the trade union of trade workers Trade Unity to Vladimir Putin. The trade union claimed that 15,000 employees of the company were notified about the optimization of the business, but did not name the conditions, but only verbally promised seven to eight salaries. Union members demanded external management in order to save jobs. And recently, IKEA employees organized a flash mob under the slogan "We stay!".

An interlocutor close to IKEA said that the company “works closely with Rostrud”, selecting employment options for optimized employees. The press service of IKEA assured that it "complies with Russian law."

Why is it important

IKEA tried to enter the Russian market even under the USSR , and now the company's stores have a final sale . But there is still no clarity with who will receive its assets. The competing furniture chain Hoff and the hypermarket chain Your House Crocus Group of Araz Agalarov were named as contenders. The business includes the company's four large Russian plants, which were themselves valued at 15 billion rubles. External management may complicate negotiations with buyers, Vedomosti wrote.

The bill on the external management of VEB.RF in companies leaving Russia was adopted by the State Duma in the first reading , but in the second version. The first caused great claims , since in fact it boiled down to the accelerated nationalization of almost any foreign company that restricted the work. If the management has notified "more than one-third of the employees of the reduction in the number or staff of the organization's employees," this is a sufficient reason to introduce external management, follows from the new document.