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class="article__featured-image__caption featured-image__caption"> Wildberries HQ in Moscow. </span> <span class="article__featured-image__credits featured-image__credits"> Alexander Shcherbak / TASS </span> </figcaption> </figure> <div class="article__content-container"> <div class="article__content" y-name="article-content"> <div y-use="article.ElementIntersection" data-id="article-block-type" class="article__block article__block--html article__block--column "> <p><span>Employees of Russian e-commerce giant Wildberries launched a nationwide industrial action on Wednesday to protest against a new payment system, the Russian edition of Forbes </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230315164744/https://www.forbes.ru/biznes/486102-na-rabotu-vyjdem-no-vydavat-ne-budem-sotrudniki-pvz-wildberries-gotovy-bastovat"><span>reported</span></a><span>, citing one of the protest organizers.</span></p> <p><span>“We will go to work so as not to violate the terms of labor contracts, but we won’t 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The company has said that in 98% of such cases, mistakes made by its staff were to blame. </span></p> <p><span>Wildberries employees say that the new system led to one employee having 500,000 rubles ($6,581) deducted from their wages, Forbes reported.</span></p> <p><span></span><span>Wildberries denied that any form of industrial action was going ahead on Wednesday, </span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230315164744/https://www.rbc.ru/business/15/03/2023/64116c889a7947de327e0288?from=from_main_10?utm_source=telegram&utm_medium=messenger"><span>telling</span></a><span> the RBC business daily that “the information about the ‘strike’ is untrue. 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