INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Wage arrears among Russian companies surged in early 2025, reflecting growing financial pressures on businesses across several key
industries, according to a report from the General Confederation of Trade Unions obtained by the pro-Kremlin daily Izvestia.While official
government statistics indicate that wage arrears increased from 500 million rubles ($6 million) in January to 1.5 billion rubles ($18
in the first quarter of the year.The largest arrears were recorded at DSK, a road construction company in the Tver region, which owed 608
million rubles ($8 million) to 3,657 employees as of late March.Other notable cases included Shakhta Inskaya, an industrial equipment
supplier in the Kemerovo region that failed to pay 65 million rubles ($800,000) to its workforce on time.Rassvet, a food services company in
small and medium-sized businesses, told Izvestia.He noted that companies in the Ural Mountains and Siberian regions are experiencing
interest rate.Pishchalnikov also cited data from the Federal Labour Inspectorate showing more than 18,000 citizen complaints about wage
Labor and Employment Service confirmed it had received monitoring data from the Confederation of Trade Unions listing organizations with
combined wage arrears totaling approximately 2.4 billion rubles ($30 million).The agency noted that its figures were corroborated by the
State Labor Inspectorate and an analysis of primary company documents.
