Meeting on current issues with deputy prime ministers

Main items on the agenda: Support for mortgage payments for large families in the Far East, employment procedures for evacuated workers and methods for forecasting the economy's demand for human resources.

Mikhail Mishustin's opening remarks

Tatyana Golikova's report on methods for forecasting the demand for human resources in the economy

Excerpts from the transcript:

Mikhail Mishustin: Good afternoon, colleagues.

At the Eastern Economic Forum, the President spoke in detail about measures to improve living conditions for people in the Far East and highlighted support for families with children.

The most needed measures include one million roubles for mortgage repayment for large families. Families in the Primorye Territory became the first participants in this project last year.

The President issued instructions to extend this practice to Chukotka and the regions where the birth rate of the third child and subsequent children is below the average for the federal district. He also instructed to speed up the adoption of the necessary regulations to ensure this measure has the desired effect.

Let us allocate the funds provided for co-financing this social benefit under previously approved regulations among the eight Far Eastern regions.

This decision will enable almost 2,000 families with a third or subsequent child to significantly reduce their mortgages or repay their debts in full.

Now, regarding the decisions for the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions.

The President underscored the need to respond promptly to all emerging issues, especially in the social sphere, in order to effectively assist people from these regions.

On his instructions, the employment procedures for evacuated workers are being adjusted. This is primarily because many people are simply unable to find a job without documents on their education or professional qualifications. The situation in the border areas remains unsafe for their return.

Now the residents of these regions will find it easier to enter into employment contracts.

Such an approach has already been applied to employing people from the four new Russian regions, as well as to those who urgently relocated to Russia from Ukraine. We will now extend this experience to the people evacuated from the border areas in order to make it easier for them to seek employment.

They will also be able to secure full-time jobs. Currently, some enterprises and organisations in the Belgorod, Bryansk and Kursk regions are experiencing forced downtime, while others have been affected by shelling. Those who have left those areas have had to find temporary jobs, and many have not even had the opportunity to officially resign from their jobs at home.

We will change the rules through a Government resolution to ensure the observance of people's rights. Employers will be able to offer such people full-time jobs and adjust the labour remuneration mechanism accordingly.

We expect that the measures taken will support citizens and help them cope with the temporary difficulties.

Further on the topic, there is currently great demand from all sectors for workers and specialists. I hear this on every trip I make to the regions.

The President underscored that in order to meet the demands of the time, it is necessary to ensure an inflow of skilled workers into our economy who are ready to master new production and management technologies. This will help unlock Russia's enormous potential and provide our talented scientists, engineers, businesspeople and workers with the opportunity to fulfil their potential.

The Personnel national project is designed to address this issue. It unites the state, business and education in an effort to develop a system of vocational training, from career guidance at schools to retraining throughout the entire professional cycle.

Of course, it is essential to consider the needs of enterprises, as well as statistical, demographic and other data. These should serve as the basis for an accurate forecast of demand for labour resources over a five-year period, both on a national scale and in terms of each region and sector.

Following the President's instructions, we have prepared the relevant set of methods. Ms Golikova, please tell us in detail how this work will be organised.

Tatyana Golikova: Mr Mishustin, colleagues.

As you have said, on the President's instruction, in 2023 we were tasked with developing a methodology for forecasting the economy's demand for human resources by region and sector, with subsequent forecasts progressing step-by-step into professional and qualification levels. We are currently engaged in this work.

Such a forecast is unprecedented in Russian practice. It aims to provide an understanding of how many specialists in specific professions will be required in each region over the next year, or in three, five years, and so on, because the forecast will be reviewed annually based on the standards stipulated in the methodology you have approved through the relevant directive.

Currently, the work to develop this forecast has been organised pursuant to your directive by the Government, the Ministry of Labour, federal executive authorities of the relevant competence, State Council commissions and our experts.

In order to calculate the future personnel demand, we will take into account projected changes in gross added value, labour productivity, demographic forecasts, development strategies for the relevant industries, and, importantly, the employer surveys that we conduct.

This year, we have already conducted a nationwide survey of employers, with over 260,000 organisations taking part. The survey was carried out representatively. Extensive collaboration with federal and regional authorities was conducted, both via the Work of Russia website and the Social Fund through electronic document management.

In addition, we consulted 260 experts about promising areas in end-to-end and critical technologies. Together, we have identified professions that will be promising not only in the current situation, but also in the future to ensure development.

We also consider the measures and needs that our colleagues have formulated as part of the relevant areas of technological sovereignty and national projects, which will be launched on 1 January 2025. All of this will be aggregated within the Personnel national project.

Using this method, we will complete and present an updated forecast at the end of 2024. It will become the foundation of the Personnel national project. It will serve both as the foundation for forming the control figures for admission to specialised secondary educational institutions and higher educational institutions, as well as for personnel retraining in various areas, including the branches of the military-industrial complex.

It is also very important that we concentrate all our financial resources on the areas of retraining and advanced training that are in exceptional demand in the labour market.

The regions are focused on this, as are employers and federal executive authorities.

All of this will serve as the basic guidelines for us when developing the future Personnel national project.

Mikhail Mishustin: Thank you. It is very important for us to understand how demand for workers, engineers, and scientists will change in order to develop the technological, economic, and cultural sovereignty of our country and achieve the goals set by the head of state.

People must know which areas of specialisation will help them succeed in life. Adjusting the education system to the real needs of the economy should, in one way or another, guarantee graduates that the knowledge, skills, and profession they have acquired will be in demand in the future.

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