In Ukraine doubled the number of employees who do not receive salary, write

today people owes 1 billion 424 million USD (almost 110 million). This information caused the head of the Federation of trade unions Gregory Osovaya.

" Long time no overcome this shameful phenomenon of wage arrears totaling more than 1 September of the current year increased by 1, 8 times and reached 1 billion 424 million USD, and the number of workers who do not get time wages doubled. In practice, this equates to an average region of Ukraine, which do not receive a salary workers, " said Osovaya.

according to the state statistics service, the month before the arrears of payments to employees amounted to 1 084 783 000 UAH (about $84 million). So it turns out that for months this had increased to 31, 3% (339 622 000 UAH, or $26 million). In the statistics service said that the greatest debt was formed in the last month of summer in the Eastern regions of Ukraine, which since April, was carried out a special operation.

Also in Ukraine, in addition to the lack of payment of money to employees, decreased itself and wages - on 12, 7% in comparison with August 2013 and 7, 1% comparing with the previous month.

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