... I'm just wingin' a guess here, but I suspect employers might pay extra into the state run benefits system in an attempt to attract good (whatever that means in context) workers, and perhaps has some other arrangement in regard to the payout... like a loan plan, or extra emergency benefits if you find yourself financially distressed...
????? !
Wait! That's not supposed to happen in a Marxist Utopia! <heh>
Leigh Meyers
----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Doss To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:08 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Russian benefits
--- Leigh Meyers <leigh_m at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> [...]
> "Observers are awaiting the outcome of talks between
> Polskie Huty Stali (Polish Steelworks) and the
> British-Indian group LNM-Ispat to see whether the
> proposed deal, which included a strong social
> packet, could offer a model for cooperation between
> investors and unions."
> [...]
>
http://www.masterpage.com.pl/outlook/solidarityredux.html
>
> Benefits package?
Assuming that Poland uses the Russian system, that's what it would mean, except that the sotspaket referred to in the info I sent is a government payment. The Russian help wanted ads usually say something like "seeking a blah blah blah, steady work, from 7,000 rubles a month plus sotspaket."
BTW I just looked on a Russian job-search portal for reference, and, of the 430 jobs advertised throughout the former Soviet Union, 380 were in Moscow. The fSU extends across 11 time zones, and 380 out of 430 were in ONE CITY, though admittedly the fourth-largest city in teh world in terms of population (about 10% of the Russian population lives in Moscow or just around it). That should tell you something of the economic centralization (and extent of Internet penetration, of course). The Golden City on the Hill!
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