"The concept involves the creation of a separate law that will stipulate all the nuances of organized recruitment of employees abroad. We want to form a procedure under which state-legalized private employment agencies will monitor regional labor markets and find out how many and which migrants are needed in a particular Russian region," Boldyrev said.
He added that such services should appear not only in Russia, but also in labor-sending countries. Soon a similar structure will start working in Azerbaijan. "Regional staffing agencies will be focused not only on supplying labor from abroad. If some firms or enterprises need employees, they will first be offered to take people from among the Russian unemployed. There are about 6 million such people in the country, and they will be given preference," Boldyrev said. Who will finance the work of staffing services is not yet known. Such details have not been discussed in the FMS; they have only developed a general concept of the document.
Zhunus Dzhakupov, head of the FMS legal department, noted that the concept is needed not only for entrepreneurs. After all, if a person ends up in Russia without state supervision or fails to find work, out of desperation he may well engage in illegal activities. The worst fears of the migration service are confirmed by statistics. Over the past six months, foreign workers committed 145 thousand administrative offenses, 700 criminal cases were opened, and 8 thousand migrants were deported from Russia.
But representatives of business doubt that licensed staffing agencies will be able to create managed migration in Russia. "The system of hiring migrants today is so complicated that small business is simply unable to comply with all the procedures prescribed by law. First, they must declare their needs for foreign labor in advance. Then, from the unified quota for the region, a private entrepreneur can obtain permission to hire three to five people," said Boris Titov, chairman of Delovaya Rossiya. He believes that in addition to legislative simplifications and the formation of staffing agencies in labor-sending countries, it is also necessary to create training and adaptation centers so that a person arrives in Russia already prepared for work. There is another problem: according to Titov, many staffing agencies already existing in Russia either rob migrants or issue them fake documents. So an incoming job seeker must be not only qualified in his profession, but also savvy in legal nuances.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Yakovenko went further and proposed creating a council of heads of migration agencies of the CIS countries. This body, according to Yakovenko, will not only be responsible for the employment of migrants in Russia, but will also help them obtain medical certificates of health status back in their home countries.