Posted on 07/16/2025 11:34:40 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Russia's catastrophic labour shortage has forced businesses to hire teenagers and retirees to fill jobs as the population crisis worsens. This issue has been brewing for years as the war with Ukraine continues, which has sent many working age people to the frontlines. Job adverts asking for "young applicants" as young as 14 skyrocketed by 119% in the first quarter of last year, Russian outlet Nakanune reported.
Demand for workers between 16 and 18 also doubled. Openings for workers 55 and above increased by 65% in the culture and education sectors, and 12% in the service industry. Vladimir Putin has been scrambling to increase employment amid the population crisis, allowing 14 year olds to get a job and raising the retirement age. Russian men can now retire at 65 (up from 60) and women at 63 (up from 55).
The continuing labour shortage has pushed up wages and increased inflation, which hit 9.9% earlier this year amid Western economic sanctions.
This comes as labour minister Anton Kotyakov warned of the staggering scale of Russia's population crisis as birth rates plummet and working age people are needed for the war effort.
He estimated that an extra 10.9 million people would be needed in the workforce by 2030 to replace those who will have retired and to fill 800,000 new jobs.
Kotyakov warned of an "additional shortage of personnel" if the current productivity estimations are not met. The Kremlin has also been discussing efforts to increase the birth rate, which Putin called a matter of "ethnic survival".
He has been encouraging women to have as many as eight children, including through cash payouts and tax breaks for large families.
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Since so much of our defense budget is to defend us, and to a degree, the world, against Russia, it makes sense to pay attention to them.
Vlad has killed more than a million Russians with his misbegotten attempt to steal land and resources from Ukraine.
Russian hypocrisy is boundless. It's their number one national product.
The daily Russia-is-doomed post.
Surprised that Xi hasn’t sent up Chinese illegal alien migrants into Siberia. A slow invasion of illegals could make Russia or Siberia into a satellite vassal state of China.
The Russians will simply shoot them. Since these won’t be useful members of Chinese society Xi won’t care! Win win!
He really thinks Ukrainians would fight for Russia?
It takes a long time, at least several generations to incorporate a conquered people to fight for their new masters.
Look at Scotland. Eventually most the Scots did become loyal members and soldiers for the UK but it took a long time and there are still bitter feelings
Old school. I tell youngsters to score at least two jobs. When I finally receive Sosha Security, I'm gonna want every penny.
War mongering seems insane to me and leading us to some sort of disaster that will be revealed when all is said and done.
What does that mean, “war mongering”?
I think that is why so many countries in the world spend billions on defense because of Russia, currently Russia has launched a European invasion and brought in the North Korean Army to help, so many countries have to spend so much on their militaries, because of war mongering Russia.
The second biggest country in Europe wanting to defend its own borders, langauge and culture against (another) genocidal invasion is now, apparently, “warmongering”. Frankly, I don’t see much possibilitiy of intellectual debate with such idiocy.
I wonder how many nations of the world focus most of or their entire defense budgets on protecting themselves from Russia, and then how many spend a substantial if not most of their military budgets on it, it is going to be a very long list.
Why all this anger towards certain countries on judgement day Putin, Trump, Xi and Kim all face the same judge.
You must have posted that to the wrong person, maybe it would make sense to someone else, especially if you can find someone who is angry about something.
And to boot , in 48 days, Putin’s economy is abiout to enter the Trump meat grinder.
And Ukrainian ordnance will start hkitting Moscow.
Putin will try to go nuclear, but there are likely B3s in his future IMHO.
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