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It noted that Labour Minister Anton Kotyakov had said that workforce shortages were felt hard in the manufacturing, construction and transportation sectors, forcing companies to raise wages to try to attract more employees.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-short-around-48-million-workers-2023-crunch-persist-izvestia-2023-12-24/ Russia short of around 4.8 million workers in 2023, crunch to persist - Izvestia]</ref>}}
It noted that Labour Minister Anton Kotyakov had said that workforce shortages were felt hard in the manufacturing, construction and transportation sectors, forcing companies to raise wages to try to attract more employees.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-short-around-48-million-workers-2023-crunch-persist-izvestia-2023-12-24/ Russia short of around 4.8 million workers in 2023, crunch to persist - Izvestia]</ref>}}
== Russia's labor shortages in the oil and gas industry ==
The Oreanda-News agency was founded in August 1994 in Moscow, becoming one of the first independent news agencies in contemporary Russia.<ref>[https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/about/ Oreanda-News agency - About page]</ref> Since 2007, it has been based in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia.<ref>[https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/about/ Oreanda-News agency - About page]</ref>
In 2023, Oreana-News reported in an article entitled ''In Russia, the shortage of personnel in the oil and gas industry was assessed'':
{{Cquote|Currently, the Russian oil and gas industry lacks 25 thousand employees. Elena Kuznetsova, partner of Yakov and Partners, told RIA Novosti about the shortage of staff.
She noted that the need for personnel in the sphere is 90 percent higher than at the beginning of 2021. Companies are particularly in need of welders, locksmiths, machinists, engineers and drillers. Moreover, problems with the lack of workers are fixed not only in the energy sector. In particular, companies are actively looking for sales specialists, IT specialists, builders and managers.
Kuznetsova emphasizes that it is most difficult for employers to find medium- and highly qualified personnel, since they cannot be replaced quickly. Experts attribute the shortage of labor to the relocation of specialists, the low attractiveness of work in remote regions, as well as the aging of existing personnel and low motivation of young people.
Earlier, the head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said that the shortage of personnel is the main problem of the Russian economy. According to the representative of the Bank of Russia, for further economic growth, it is necessary to ensure not the availability of money and loans, but to increase labor productivity.<ref>[https://www.oreanda-news.com/en/tek/in-russia-the-shortage-of-personnel-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-was-assessed/article1494706/ ''In Russia, the shortage of personnel in the oil and gas industry was assessed''], Oreana News, 2023</ref>}}
=== Military recruitment in Russia aggravates Russia's labor shortages in oil industry. Russian backlash due to terrorist attack in Moscow causes many migrants to return home ===
On April 5, 2024, Reuters reported:
{{Cquote|Russian oil producer Lukoil (LKOH.MM), opens new tab has signed a deal with Uzbekistan to hire workers from the Central Asian state on temporary contracts, in a sign of how labour shortages are forcing Russian firms to recruit staff from abroad.
The deal, announced by Uzbekistan's ministry of poverty alleviation and employment, comes as Central Asians living in Russia face heightened suspicion and hostility after a mass shooting at a Moscow concert hall last month in which at least 144 people were killed...
Russia's labour shortages have been aggravated by military recruitment for the war in Ukraine and the fact that hundreds of thousands of people have left the country since it started in February 2022. The jobless rate fell to a record low of 2.8% in February.
The working-age population has particularly been decreasing in Russia's Arctic and far east regions, where much of its oil and gas production is concentrated.
Russia's workforce includes several million immigrants from Muslim countries of Central Asia which used to be part of the Soviet Union.
Last week, however, Tajikistan said there had been a surge in the numbers of migrant workers returning home, some saying they were afraid amid signs of a backlash following the concert shooting. Kyrgyzstan, another Central Asian state, urged its citizens last week to put off unnecessary travel to Russia.<ref>[https://www.reuters.com/world/russias-lukoil-seeks-uzbek-workers-tackle-labour-shortage-2024-04-05/ Russia's Lukoil seeks Uzbek workers to tackle labour shortage], Reuters, April 5, 2024</ref>}}
== See also ==
== See also ==