"Tajik labor migrants working Russia helped to be paid back RR18 million unpaid wages in H1, 2024"

Over the first six months of this year, the representative office of Tajikistan’s Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of the Population (MoLMEP) in Russia has reportedly negotiated the payment of 18,023,987 Russian rubles (RR) of unpaid back wages to Tajik labor migrants working in the Russian Federation.

The MoLMEP representative office’s press center says the reasons for non-payment of wages to migrant workers are varied, but most often they are associated with the lack of an employment contract with the employer and insufficient control over the fulfillment of obligations on the part of the contractor...

With each passing year, labor migrants from Tajikistan in Russia come up against new difficulties in securing work permits and formalizing their right to live in the country...

Employment contracts are often nonexistent and it similarly common for workers to be hired off the books. Workers can be employed by people whose names they do not know and companies whose legal address is a mystery. The option of going through the legal system to press employers to pay back wages is usually only available when all the rules have been followed.