Major social projects in health care, education, housing and agriculture were among the topics discussed at the meeting.
The President emphasized that creating civilised labour relations cannot be addressed separately from general issues of social development.
The head of state pointed out that an important criterion in any budgetary organization's activities is the quality of work done by workers in the budgetary sphere. Vladimir Putin pointed out that it is in the interests of the Russian Federation's citizens, including trade union members, that increases in wages and the substantial increase in financing for national social projects be accompanied by new criteria for the quality of work.