MIGRATION SERVICE TO REQUIRE DEPOSIT FROM EMPLOYERS OF FOREIGNLABOR.

Many employers of labor from foreign countries failto pay their workers enough to allow them to return to their homelandsafter they are discharged, Moskovsky komsomolets reported August29. As a result, many of these workers simply remain in Russiancities as a burden to the state. To prevent this from happeningin the future, the Federal Migration Service plans to ask allfirms employing foreign workers to provide a letter of creditthat could be used to send the workers back to their homelandsafter being discharged.

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