A meeting of the collegium of the Volyn Oblast Prosecutor's Office was held in Lutsk, at which the state of compliance in Volyn with labor legislation regarding the timely payment of wages and ensuring proper working conditions, as well as prosecutorial supervision on these issues, was considered. as reported by the press secretary of the oblast prosecutor, Nataliia Murakhevych, speaking at the meeting, the deputy prosecutor of the oblast, senior counselor of justice Vasyl Kurenda, noted that as of the first of January 2004, 403 enterprises of the oblast owed employees 18.1 million hryvnias in wages. The largest number of debtor enterprises is in agricultural production (217), in industry (46), among trade and public catering enterprises (45), in construction (25). During the past year, the prosecutor's offices of Volyn initiated 30 criminal cases based on the facts of untimely payment of wages, and in the two months of the current year already 6 such cases. To eliminate violations of the requirements of legislation, city, inter-district and district prosecutors submitted a number of acts of prosecutorial response, following whose consideration in 2003 wages totaling about 9.8 million hryvnias were reimbursed, and in the current year 297 thousand hryvnias.