The State Duma revealed the main disadvantages of illegal employment for workers

Yaroslav Nilov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs, stressed on Monday, April 28, the importance of combating illegal employment.

Thus, the parliamentarian commented on the information that the Russian government has developed a plan to counter illegal employment for the period 2025-2027, which includes an analysis of the unemployed population and their involvement in the labor market.

"This has been done in the regions, in the government, and in parliament for a long time. This is not only a problem for our country. The International Labour Organization regularly reviews and draws attention to this problem. There is illegal employment in Russia," the deputy explained in an interview with RT.

Nilov stressed that illegal employment is a problem for the workers themselves.

"They would like to officially receive: This is a future pension, this is social insurance. God forbid, an injury at work — he works unofficially, no one will pay any insurance. The pension is not being formed... It's just a problem for the employee," Nilov added.

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The government's plan has already been coordinated with all relevant departments and approved by the Russian Trilateral Commission. The initiative will include 18 measures at the federal and regional levels, among which are the prevention of violations of labor laws, in particular, the fight against the substitution of labor relations with civil law and the collection of new information on the labor market. 360.ru .

In addition, experts will analyze the number of able-bodied citizens who are not officially employed, writes Life.Ru . The Russian Ministry of Labor, together with subordinate organizations, is also planning to form a set of measures aimed at attracting potential workers to the labor market.

Valentina Kurenkova, Director of Government Relations at Netologia and head of the GR department of the Association for Innovations in Education, RAZIO, noted on April 27 that dismissal after 40 years can be a severe blow to the purse and self-esteem, but the career does not end there, because employees of this age are often experienced and more in demand among employers..