DUSHANBE, December 2008, Asia-Plus -- Tajik guest workers in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg have won a case against a local construction company.

Speaking in an interview with Asia-Plus by phone, Rajabali Hasanov, the head of the Interior Ministry migration service’s representative office in Russia, said that Tajik migrant workers in Yekaterinburg had won case against the Russian construction company after approximately two-week strike.  

The prosecutor’s office in Yekateriburg’s Lenin district ruled that the SKA construction company must pay overdue salaries for three months to some 120 guest workers from Tajikistan.

“The salaries were handed over to team leaders yesterday and today, they will complete distribution of them to workers,” Hasanov said. 

 In the meantime, Russia’s UralPolit.Ru cited Aleksey Tikhonravov, a lawyer with the SKA construction company, as saying that the company had paid 10 million Russian rubles to the Tajik migrant workers.  

However, the company has refused services of Alpha-Stroy that hired the Tajik guest workers as it is dissatisfied with the quality of work carried out by contractor and the Tajik labor migrants will probably be left without work.