Russian official urges action on workplace alcohol abuse

A top Russian official has called upon state-owned arms producers to introduce an ethics code in order to battle alcohol abuse in the workplace.

Russian deputy prime minister Olga Golodets, speaking to HR directors of major state-owned firms, lamented “a propensity for alcohol abuse” at the plants.

She said that “the lack of discipline” comes with a “high price not only for the factories, but for humankind.”