Russian Vice Premier Igor Shuvalov ordered the Labour Ministry to prepare a governmental order project to lift the ban on foreign retails traders, Vedomosti reports on October 17.
The project was initiated by the Association of Retail Trade Companies with a letter to Minister for Industry and Trade Denis Manturov in late September. Russians are not interested in retail trade. Migrants need a quota for 25% of retail trade.
Foreigners were banned from retail trade of food and market trade in 2007. Most shops evaded the ban by hiring foreigners without registering them as staff members.
The quota for foreign labour is 1.746 million. The FMS Chief Constantine Romodanovsky proposed lifting of the quota in 2012 and implementation of different mechanisms to restrict foreign workers.
