Maxim Anatolyevich Topilin since May 2012 holds the post of head of the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation. In society, he is known, first of all, for his comments on the work of hired workers, in particular nannies, as well as on pension reform.
Youth
Maxim Topilin was born on the nineteenth of April 1967. Aboriginal Muscovite. According to the minister himself, his parents are representatives of the labor intelligentsia. Topilins have been living in Moscow for several generations, and its male representatives have always received higher education and worked in senior positions. But Maxim Anatolyevich was attracted by politics.
After school, the young man entered the Moscow Narkhoz, which he successfully graduated in 1988, receiving an economist degree. It is noteworthy that at the same institute, but one year older, Mikhail Khodorkovsky studied. And at the same faculty with Topilin comprehended the granite of science Tatyana Golikova, who later became the head of Maxim Anatolyevich and the head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development.
Continuing his studies at the graduate school of the Research Institute of the State Committee of the Soviet Union on Social Issues, Topilin worked there as a junior research fellow in the wage department.
The completion of postgraduate studies and the defense of a dissertation date from the ninety-first year. This event coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the formation of a new independent Russia. The newly minted candidate of economic sciences remains working at the institute, only as a senior research fellow. Under his authority was the sector of the research institute.
Carier start
Three years after the defense, in the ninety-fourth, Maxim Topilin, whose biography began in the family of the labor intelligentsia, receives the position of expert expert and consultant in the Department of Labor, Health and Social Security under the apparatus of the Russian government. His competence includes issues of labor, social policy and migration.
Since 1996, Topilin has already been consulting the sphere of social policy and labor in the same Department, although now it is now called the Department of Labor and Health.
In 1997, the government apparatus was reorganized, and Maxim Topilin accomplished the same tasks, only in the Department of Social Development. And a year later he headed his department of social policy and labor.
Increase
The year 2001 was marked for the official by a serious take-off on the career ladder. From the hands of the then Prime Minister Kasyanov, he received the post of Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Development. Alexander Pochinok was then minister. The main areas supervised by Maxim Topilin were the employment of Russians, vocational training, and the development of human resources.
Three years later, when, as a result of the administrative reform, the Ministry of Labor and Social Development became the Federal Service for Labor and Employment within the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Maxim Anatolyevich took a step even higher, heading this service and actually having sat his former leader Pochinok, who also claimed to be armchair. In 2005, Topilin was appointed the chief state labor inspector of the Russian Federation.
Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development
Since the summer of 2008, Maxim Topilin was the second person in the Ministry of Health and Social Development. Here, his former classmate Tatyana Golikova became his boss.
In this post, Maxim Anatolievich succeeded in combating unemployment by introducing several effective programs: creating temporary jobs, professional retraining, internal migration and subsidizing self-employment of the population. The crisis in the labor market, thanks to Topilin's efforts, was partially overcome.
Minister Maxim Topilin: increase
In 2012, Maxim Anatolyevich was waiting for another increase. At the age of forty-five, he headed the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, formed after the division of the Ministry of Health and Social Development into two structures. At that time, the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation was Dmitry Medvedev, who had ended his presidential term. The tasks of the newly made minister included, first of all, the implementation of the pension reform, on the account of which Topilin had his own personal thoughts.
A short time after the appointment, Topilin got into a conflict with Putin. The President of the Russian Federation expressed his dissatisfaction with the work of the ministry, which did not provide an increase in salaries for public sector employees, did not allocate additional funds for the construction and repair of roads, the improvement of the housing system, etc.
Defending itself, the accused side retorted that Putin promised all the above benefits as part of his election program, not taking into account the real amount of available budget funds. Maxim Topilin then received a reprimand. But he has not lost the post of minister and is holding it to this day.
Topilin Initiatives and Views
As soon as he received the ministerial chair, Maxim Anatolyevich made a speech in the media in which he stated that he was opposed to raising the retirement age. Later Topilin motivated this position by the conviction that there was no benefit in raising the age for the country's budget, since the system provides for the redirection of released funds to increase payments to pensioners. That is, according to the minister, the state economy as a result will not receive anything.
Among Topilin’s other positions is the desire to turn the state labor inspectorate from a “horror story” into an assistant and adviser. The official was inspired by this idea while working as the head of this inspection.
In 2010, Maxim Topilin, whose photo was often flashed in the media, developed a wide campaign for the legalization of the work of people who privately provide services for nannies, cooks, housekeepers, gardeners, drivers, etc. The official said that these workers are working "in the shade", receiving salaries in envelopes, not paying taxes, without having any social guarantees. Meanwhile, according to Topilin, there are about twenty million such people in the country, that is, virtually every seventh Russian.
Performance Assessment
Different points of view are expressed in the Russian press about the activities of Maxim Anatolyevich. Someone calls him a strong professional in his field, while others call him a weak candidate for the post of minister. There were accusations of Topilin of his bias against conflicts of employers and workers, supposedly the minister takes the side of the former.
If we talk about labels that inevitably appear on prominent statesmen, then the image of a workaholic is stuck to Topilin. According to journalists, the minister leaves work almost at midnight. And the official himself has repeatedly said that he is forced to work sixteen hours a day.
An important merit of Topilin to society can be considered his work in South Ossetia, where he, as Deputy Minister of Health, was from the first days of the war. For this, Maxim Anatolyevich received the Order of Courage from the state.
