Could labor in the future for the Nets in New Jersey? Mikhail Prokhorov, the colorful and unpredictable Russian oligarch who bought the team in the NBA last season, has not said. However, it emerged this week that is pushing for a 60-hour work week back home in Russia and fueling the kind of controversy that enjoys it. Prokhorov, 45 years old and 6 feet 8 inches tall, has become a beacon of hope for the NBA, but is also a symbol of new Russian capitalism,nba news talkative, aggressive, pleasant and in every way man business. Moscow newspaper Kommersant this week published a document of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs – popularly known as the "oligarchs' union" – which contains proposals to liberalize dramatically Prokhorov Russian laws work. Prokhorov, recently named Russia's second-richest individual by Forbes magazine, heads the committee of the group in the labor market and workforce strategy.
The document outlines proposals to reverse decades of draconian labor laws in Russia. The idea to increase the workweek from 40 to 60 hours – establishing a 12-hour working day – received the most attention. Even Boris Mints, a politician and businessman, was quoted – in the magazine Snob Prokhorov property, no less – suggesting it was too far. "Imagine:.? 12 hours, one hour each way to work, an hour to get in order, one and a half or so of food What is" The proposal of this week's larger work workers' consent, but the newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta characterized the typical reaction of this warning like this: "I know perfectly well how to" consent "is equal to the workers here – work or employers will be lost. Is a must, despite the objections of workers."
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