"This is a cry from the heart." In Yakutia, housing and utilities workers haven't received their salaries for three months.
The company's employees and their families recorded public treatment, in which they spoke about how they were driven to despair.
A stoker with many children said in a video message that this was a "cry from the heart": he was in debt and had no way to feed his children. He said all discreet attempts to secure his salary had been ignored by management. Meanwhile, he had to work 12-hour shifts in the harsh conditions of the Yakut winter. There were no other job openings in his village.
Wage arrears in Yakutia
17 of the 28 production branches of the State Unitary Enterprise “Housing and Communal Services of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)” have wage arrears. сообщил The republic's Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Energy, Sergei Kirov, said that debts are being repaid "as the company's revenues come in."
A deputy demands that debts to workers be paid off.
Regional deputy from United Russia Victor Fedorov demanded The republic's government demands immediate payment of wage arrears. He said the current situation is "a direct consequence of years of underfunding the industry." "The state isn't paying the company, and the company isn't paying the stokers. And the head of the State Unitary Enterprise Housing and Communal Services will be held accountable for the non-payment of wages. It's a convenient arrangement: one side accumulates debt, and the responsibility is shifted to the other," Fedorov added.
Previously, the wives of housing and communal services workers done A collective letter about chronic salary arrears has appeared in the media. They note that hundreds of families across the republic have found themselves in a critical situation.