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2022: Convicted IT specialists plan to attract to remote work in the business
The Federal Penitentiary Service proposed to involve convicted IT specialists in remote business work. This will partly reduce the shortage of personnel in this area, which was estimated at 1 million specialists. This became known on April 27, 2022.
The proposal to attract convicted aitishniks to work for business was voiced by the deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Alexander Khabarov.
Khabarov noted that IT entrepreneurs from different regions turned to him with such an initiative. countries The employment of convicted IT workers will partially reduce the shortage of personnel in the IT industry, which the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Andrey Turchak estimated at 1 million people.
If this is in demand, and this is most likely in demand, we think that we will not force specialists in this area to work in some other industries, "said Alexander Khabarov. |
Convicts plan to involve in work at the "remote" and only those who are serving their sentences in correctional centers, the essence of which is precisely the obligation to perform correctional work.
Statistics on the number of convicted IT specialists did not give. One of the most famous precedents is the case of the founder of Group-IBIli Sachkov. He was arrested in September 2021 in the case of treason. In February 2022, Sachkov was extended for three months.
Earlier, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the exemption of IT companies from income tax, postponing IT officials from serving in the army. The measures are aimed at retaining IT specialists in Russia, the outflow of which, according to various estimates, reached 70 thousand people in March alone[1].
2016: What should a programmer do in prison? IT Prisoners Employment Assistance Project Opened
In December 2016 , the ITZK.RU domain was registered, on which the IT Prisoners project was located. The home page of the site says that it was created to help IT specialists serving sentences in places of imprisonment. The project is created with the partner support of Novaya Gazeta, follows from the description on the site.
Deputy Director of Novaya Gazeta Valery Shiryaev explained to TAdviser that one of the main types of assistance to IT prisoners should be the search for work for them during the period of imprisonment. There are many convicted ITshniks in Russia, and many of them are highly qualified, he says. In conclusion, IT specialists lose their qualifications, and after release they are thrown overboard social and professional life.
To provide assistance in the framework of the project, it is first planned to assemble a database of contacts of IT specialists who have been deprived of their liberty. Anyone can add a contact to the database using the online form on the portal. After contacts are recruited, the plans are to organize a system for maintaining the qualifications of specialists that would allow them to continue working in their specialty.
In order to succeed, we need to collect the contact information of IT specialists sentenced to imprisonment. After that, we will turn with a proposal to the leadership of the FSIN and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "the creators of the portal on the main page explain. |
It also says that Novaya Gazeta has "vast experience in helping people who are imprisoned." Valery Shiryaev explained to TAdviser that the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov knows well the heads of many public organizations and departments, including the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In this sense, there is an administrative resource to help IT prisoners, the representative of Novaya Gazeta noted.
Among the ideas that are being worked out is to unite IT prisoners into a single network to allow them to connect with each other, send them distributed work tasks, etc.
The project is not political, it is a public human rights initiative, the deputy director of Novaya Gazeta emphasized in a conversation with a representative of TAdviser. Its creators are ready to collaborate with various organizations, including IT companies and the media.
The text posted on the portal as of January 20 is test and will be later adjusted, said the representative of Novaya Gazeta. For example, there is no correct information that the contacts of IT prisoners received through the portal will be available only to Novaya Gazeta employees. In fact, they will be available to other organizations involved in helping prisoners.
In Novaya Gazeta, TAdviser was told that the initiative to create the project comes from people interested in protecting Alexander Novoselov, one of the defendants in the criminal case of fraud in creating an electronic government in Komi. They turned to Novaya Gazeta with a proposal to provide support. The accused in this case is also Alexander Selyutin, the former head of the Komi Informatization and Communications Committee. They are charged with committing a crime part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, by a person using his official position, on an especially large scale). The details of the case are in the profile of Alexander Selyutin.
The investigation claims that in 2010-2015, as a result of the actions of Selyutin, Novoselov and another accomplice - the head of the Center for Information Analytical Systems Yuri Polivenko - more than 11 million rubles were stolen from the Komi budget, provided for the creation of electronic government in the republic. In particular, the automation of state and municipal services.
In law enforcement reports in this case, Alexander Novoselov is called the head of the company AyTiHelp LLC, with which an agreement was concluded for the performance of work related to the creation of electronic public services in Komi. A TAdviser source familiar with the details of the criminal case claims that Novoselov was not such. AyTiHelp attracted him as a consultant, says TAdviser interlocutor.
From the point of view of legislation, the employment of prisoners is possible, but may have some difficulties.
Elena Kozhemyakina, managing partner of the law firm BLS, notes that the Labor Code of the Russian Federation has no restrictions on where the employee's workplace will be organized. The current legislation, as recently amended on remote labour, allows for the legitimate formalization of an employment contract with a person in detention.
My legal experience suggests that people will be interested in such work. However, most likely, there will be difficulties in the penal system, because work should be organized using the Internet, and access to the outside world from places of execution is limited. By virtue of the law, there are even no mobile phones, and not just the Internet. In this regard, such an opportunity, of course, is, but the likelihood that the penitentiary system will make some changes is extremely small, the lawyer argues about the prospects for employment of prisoners. |
The chairman of the board IBS Sergey Matsotsky found it difficult to answer how ready his company would be to hire such specialists. He noted that the market is full of people, and he did not even think about such an opportunity. In other IT companies, where TAdviser turned, could not comment on the employment prospects of imprisoned specialists.