Annual report 2010

The changing economic circumstances of the recent years have forced difficult choices on both people and organisations. By the beginning of 2010, unemployment had reached its peak in Estonia. The number of registered unemployed was more than 100,000 people, which is almost equal to the population of Tartu. In this situation, RMK set an objective to offer a job in the state forest to as many temporarily unemployed people as possible.

We started to gradually increase the work volumes already after the structural changes in 2008. Mainly through increasing the cutting and forest renewal work volumes, the number of people working in the state forest has increased by approximately 800 people. In 2010, more than 700 people were added, receiving additional jobs in road maintenance and reconstruction of drainage systems, practical nature conservation works, organisation of visits, plant growing and elsewhere. Since most of the state forest works are performed by undertakings, the positions were first created in the private sector. We also offered retraining opportunities at the Luua Forestry School throughout the year and involved new people, now already as RMK employees, to practical nature conservation works. Regardless of whether a position was created in a private undertaking or in RMK, the added work volumes will not decrease and the people who
have already established a relationship with the state forest can continue counting on it.

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