The Russian Federation State Labor Inspectorate received an official request to prosecute METRO Cash & Carry’s management for Labor Code violations, Sverdlovsk Region’s trade unions news bulletin says.

The labor inspectors from Sverdlovsk Region Federation of Trade Unions examined the working conditions in this multinational corporations’ Yekaterinburg subsidiary in April 2009. They detected numerous labor code offenses such as lack of compensation or longer holidays for people involved in hazardous activities, no attempts to improve on the microclimate of refrigerator departments, and no measures taken to raise the amount of natural light the workers were exposed to.

At the end of the examination, the company’s executives were given orders to eliminate the violations, but they refused to accept or follow them. So the case was placed with the Russian Federation State Labor Inspectorate.