The Mayor of Vitebsk believes that the heads of the city's enterprises underestimate the work of their employees
Chairman of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee Viktor Nikolaikin believes that the heads of the city's enterprises underestimate the labor of their employees. The mayor made this statement today at a session of the city council, where the results of the socio-economic development of the regional center in 2012 and the draft forecast indicators for 2013 were discussed, a BELTA correspondent reports.
The average wage in November of the current year in Vitebsk amounted to Br3968 thousand. And although in the region Vitebsk is second only to Novopolotsk in terms of average wage, it lags behind other regional centers of Belarus in this indicator. At the same time, Vitebsk is one of the few cities where the growth of labor productivity outpaces the growth of the wage level. "This indicates that the labor of employees is underestimated," the mayor believes.
The Chairman of the City Executive Committee demanded that the director corps eliminate the imbalance within the 1st quarter of 2013 and review approaches to salary payments, taking into account the growth of labor productivity.
According to preliminary estimates, the average wage in December 2012 will be Br4350 thousand for the city, and Br3533 thousand for January-December. In 2013, the average wage will reach Br4622 thousand. In order to achieve the set wage level, Vitebsk enterprises will have to increase industrial production in 2013, bring the profitability of sales in industry on average to at least 13%, achieve a specific output of innovative products in the total production volume at the level of 42%, attract $37 million in direct foreign investment on a net basis, and increase exports by almost one and a half times.