The social status of the staff of the oil refining complex enterprises and their staffing

Introduction. In the context of the need to ensure the technological sovereignty of the country, import substitution, and the need to modernize the production infrastructure, research on the social status of personnel in priority industrial sectors, such as, for example, the oil refining industry, is of particular importance.

Purpose. Consideration of the problems of the social situation of the personnel of the oil refining complex enterprises as one of the priorities of the national economy of the country. Analyze the staffing of relevant industry enterprises.

Methods. To study the social situation of the personnel of the oil refining complex enterprises, the provisions of foreign and domestic studies of the sphere of labor and employment of the population were used, statistical and sociological empirical data were summarized, and their secondary analysis was carried out. Results. It turned out that the situation of the workforce in the area taken for analysis has similar characteristics to the global ones caused by the fourth industrial revolution, however, Russian trends related to the need to ensure the country's technological sovereignty, import substitution, and modernization of production infrastructure place oil refining among the priority sectors of the economy for the state, requiring regulatory influence in relation to timely training of professional personnel. engineering and working specialties.

Conclusions. It has been established that the oil refining industry of the national economy currently has a shortage of personnel due to both demographic trends and shortcomings in the vocational training system, weak popularization of industrial professions and its information security, which is superimposed on updating the demand for new professions in the ten-year perspective of the specified sector of the national economy, which has a strategically important import-substituting priority.

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