Vladimir Evlanov: Krasnodar employers should be more responsible in the matter of collective bargain agreements

Today’s operational meeting held in Krasnodar City Hall was dedicated to the matters of employees’ safety and health protection and conclusion of collective bargain agreements in enterprises and organizations. Head of Krasnodar Vladimir Evlanov appealed for employers to be more responsible in creation of favorable and safe working conditions for staff members and cooperation with labour collectives.

— In spite of permanent attention to the topic, employment accidents including those with lethal outcome at city enterprises are still happening. This raises the question whether the safety procedures are properly observed or not and how the workplaces are organized. There are also difficulties with collective bargain agreements — employers are not willing to conclude them. The situation is unacceptable. Interests of working people must be protected to the fullest possible extent. This will be demanded from all business units, — Vladimir Evlanov said.

Chiefs of enterprises and organizations where fatal casualties took place in this year and with no collective bargain agreements were invited to attend the meeting.

According to employment centre of Krasnodar, in 9 months of this year 368 workers of the city sustained employment injuries. 19 out of total number of accidents were with lethal outcome, in 53 accidents — severe injury and 296 resulted in light injuries. In comparison with the same period of the past year the number of employment injuries has reduced by 4,6 percent.

In the course of operational meeting participants listened to chiefs of organizations in sphere of industry, power supply etc where fatal casualties took place. They told why these accidents happened and what measures were taken to prevent them in the following.

Also the meeting participants deeply discussed the situation relating to labour protection sphere including statistics of collective bargain agreements conclusion. As of 1 November 2015 in Krasnodar such agreements are concluded in over 2700 organizations comprising some 224 thousand people. There is a decrease of existing collective agreements by 2,4 percent compared with the same period of the past year.

The meeting participants separately considered the situation in every business unit where collective bargain agreement hadn’t been prolonged or concluded at all. Eventually these organizations’ chiefs confirmed that the problem will be resolved in the closest time.