Russia’s Ozone market will employ more than 500 convicts by the end of this year. We are talking about persons with a light punishment regime.
Those employees will work in fulfillment centers, pick orders and process returns in warehouses, one retailer said in a statement.
According to information obtained by SIA from Russian websites, employment of convicts is planned within the framework of the social project “Mahkumsuz Ozone” launched in St. Petersburg in the fall of 2022.
Each project participant will have the opportunity to earn paid work, comfortable working conditions and additional earnings due to overtime.
It is assumed that logistics facilities in Rostov-on-Don, Kazan and Moscow region will participate in the project. At the same time, the number of convicts will not exceed 10 percent of the total number of employees of each warehouse.
It should be recalled that in the fall of 2022, a massive meningitis epidemic occurred at the Ozone reservoir in Istra near Moscow.
Agasaf Babayev