Moscow Embassy with SLFEB secures jobs in Russia

The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow has initiated direct employment opportunities for Sri Lankan skilled migrant workers in the Russian Federation for the first time in the history.

The programme has been arranged in collaboration with the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Agency (SLFEA).

Under this initiative, the first group consisting of 58 seamstresses arrived in the Russian Federation on August 02. They will be employed at two renowned textile manufacturing plants located in Nizhny Novgorod region.

The Embassy facilitated the said employers to enter into agreements with the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Agency to recruit these 58 seamstresses without involvement of intermediate agencies.

Discussions are underway in a progressive manner with the regional government authorities in Nizhny Novgorod  to make more 700 employment opportunities available for Sri Lankan skilled seamstresses.

 Moreover, this Embassy in liaison with relevant authorities is in the process of devising a mechanism in order to create more employment opportunities for Sri Lankan skilled migrant workers in the Russian Federation and other countries of accreditation, under a number of technical categories, the Foreign Ministry said.