Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russia's military registration and enlistment offices are currently flooded with people who in some cases have had to make appointments a month in advance. It's not because of a sudden surge of interest in joining up, but is due to punitive new registration requirements. ⬇️

2/ The Russian newspaper Kommersant reports that large numbers of people are visiting military registration and enlistment offices (voenkomats in Russian). They are not applicants, however, but representatives of companies with employees liable for military service.

3/ This is due to the imminent entry into force (on 1 October 2023) of punitive fines for companies violating military registration procedures. The Russian state requires companies to keep detailed records of employees who are subject to mobilisation.

4/ As highlighted in the thread below, Russian companies are recruiting record numbers of specialists in managing military and mobilisation records. Many companies have outsourced this work to external personnel management firms.

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1704761529235583230

5/ However, bureaucratic inefficiencies are causing problems. For instance, Moscow's voenkomats are only open on Mondays and Wednesdays. There is also no standard procedure or set of documentation for submitting employees' data to voenkomats.

6/ Yulia Tarasova of the General Council of Business Russia says that "we are faced with a lack of uniform standards and requirements – each military registration and enlistment office and commission works in its own way."

7/ A spokesman for the personnel management outsourcing company 1C-WiseAdvice comments: "There is no exact list of documents that need to be provided. There are methodological recommendations, but often, even if we follow them, we get a refusal."

8/ It's not even clear which companies need to submit registration information. One company says that "some military commissions refuse to approve military registration measures for companies with fewer than ten persons liable for military service."

9/ To add to the inefficiency, although companies are likely to maintain records electronically, voenkomats require them to be submitted on paper. The voenkomats' reliance on paper has made them particularly vulnerable to arson attacks, of which there have been many.

10/ Some firms are not too bothered about the fines, which can range up to 400-500,000 rubles ($4,138-$5,173), calculating that they stand to lose more if their most valued employees get mobilised.

11/ A source at a critical infrastructure company says: "With a turnover of 3 billion roubles ($31 million) a month, we can afford to pay a fine of 400-500 thousand roubles at least several times.

12/ But if the employees of our IT department, having heard about the military registration, quit and leave, there will be no one left to work." /end

Source:
kommersant.ru/doc/6239911