a Wave of layoffs began to decline and in early August the situation in the labour market almost completely out on the middle “doverennye” indicators. Such conclusions the experts made the results of a poll conducted by the Financial University in July in the cities with population more than 250 thousand people (available to the “Russian newspaper”).
Only 13% of respondents stated that cases of dismissal of staff and wage cuts that have occurred recently. During a similar study conducted a year ago, in the summer of 2019, responded positively to this question, 11% of residents in large and medium cities. And in the summer of 2018, the proportion of those who had known recent cases of dismissal or reduction of wages was 14%.
“the Introduction of quarantine measures to combat the spread of coronavirus resulted in total or temporary closure of a number of companies and enterprises, which in turn caused a wave of staff layoffs and reduction of wages. After the lifting of quarantine restrictions in June, we saw a second wave of staff layoffs and reductions in payroll – it was connected with that business out of the quarantine state, estimated the demand for labour in the new conditions and began to get rid of excess workers. However, by the end of July, as the study showed, the process of staff cuts were completed and the labor market has stabilized,” – said the Director of the Institute of socio-economic studies of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation Alexey Prong.
However there are a number of territories that suffered from layoffs and wage cuts more than the national average. More layoffs and wage cuts marked in the cities. as the Khabarovsk, Volgograd, Ivanovo, Kurgan and Nizhnevartovsk. Least of all affected employees in Makhachkala, Sochi, Nizhny Novgorod, Grozny and Ufa.
