Trudprava (the Center for Social and Labor Rights (CSLR)) is about to publish a report on collective labor related conflicts in Russia for 2015 with the count standing at 409 conflict situations, 40% more than in 2014 and with December marking a high for the year. Never in the past eight years has the number of conflicts been so high. In several regions businesses are struggling to pay their staff and this is adding to staff discontent. Protests are becoming sharper, more widespread, and are affecting previously more conciliatory sectors.
According to the report’s author, Piotr Biziokov, the protest wave got underway in December 2014 and kept on growing in 2015. Protests also became more radical in nature with more than 40% involving work stoppages as compared with a third in previous years. Unions are increasingly turning to article 142 of the Labor Code, which authorizes employees to stop working when late salary payments exceed fifteen days (c.f. article No. 9234).
Late payments. Half of the conflicts are due to late salary pa
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