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Hourly pay according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation
Article 100 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation allows the employer to establish at the enterprise that system of remuneration, which is most economically justified in this situation. Her choice must be indicated in the local regulatory act of the employer. Hourly wages are a special case of the summarized accounting of working hours (Article 104 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).
The salary received by an employee may consist only of payments for hours worked, it is possible to use an incentive bonus part. It may also depend on the norm performed per unit of time, with an appropriate allowance for productive work.
Article 133 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation establishes requirements for the minimum hourly wage, read more about this below. The maximum number of hours that an employee can work for an accounting period is also limited; they can choose a week, month, quarter. The maximum duration of the accounting period is 1 year.
Minimum hourly wage in 2020 in Russia
Legislation prohibits employees from being paid less than established level SMIC. For non-compliance with this rule, liability is provided in accordance with Art. 5.27 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
In 2018, there was an increase in the minimum wage to 11,163 rubles. From January 1, 2019, the minimum wage amounted to 100% of the subsistence level - 11,280 rubles. In 2020 - 12130 rubles. Accordingly, it is necessary to systematically index the cost of an hour of work for hourly employees.
It is worth paying attention to the fact that depending on the region, the size of the minimum wage may vary. This is due not only to the use of district coefficients for the northern regions and territories equated to them, but also to the presence of a tripartite agreement in the region.
To calculate the cost of an hour, you need to calculate the maximum number of working hours per month for a 40-hour work week. And then divide the value of the minimum wage by the number of hours.
The maximum number of hours that can be in a month is 184.
The minimum wage for an hour of work in the Russian Federation from January 1, 2019 is 12,130/184 = 62.9 rubles. This figure is relevant for August and October. In other months, when there are less working hours, the hourly rate is higher.
Hourly pay is such a system that is convenient for use by the worker's staff:
- part-time;
- in flexible working hours;
- at the same time;
- in the mode of uneven distribution of work tasks in the billing period;
- with the inability to accurately standardize their work
Payroll for hourly pay
As we wrote above, the minimum hourly rate depends on the size of the minimum wage. AT recent times this figure is constantly changing, so it is worth setting the rate a little higher in order to avoid breaking the law and constantly issuing additional agreements to employment contracts. Wages for hourly work are calculated by multiplying the number of hours worked by the wage rate.
A part-time accountant worked 67 hours in April. The hourly tariff rate is 235 rubles. The salary for April was 67 * 235 = 15,745 rubles.
How to issue
If this system is already in effect at the employer when hiring a new employee, then necessary condition simply written in employment contract and a job order.
Sample letter of application for a job with hourly wages
When moving within the current labor process a certain procedure is required. Painted it step by step:
Step 1. Issuance of an order on the introduction of a summarized accounting of working hours.
Step 2. Notifying the employee of a significant change in the terms of the employment contract 2 months before the expected date.
Step 3. Signing an additional agreement to the employment contract on the introduction hourly pay.
Please note that such changes require the consent of the employee. Otherwise, he is subject to dismissal.
THE FEDERAL LAW
On amendments to certain legislative acts regarding the establishment of the minimum hourly wage, as well as the establishment of the minimum wage applied for the purposes of compulsory social insurance, not lower than the subsistence minimum for the able-bodied population as a whole for Russian Federation
Article 1
Submit to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation (Sobranie Zakonodatelstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 2002, N 1, Art. 3, 2004, N 18, Art. 1690; N 35, Art. 3607; 2007, N 17, Art. 1930; 2009, N 30 , item 3739; 2012, N 50, item 6957; 2013, N 30, item 4037; N 48, item 6165; N 52, item 6986) the following changes:
1) the first part of Article 133 after the words "the subsistence level of the able-bodied population." add the following sentence:
"Minimum size wages, established by this article and used to regulate wages, is expressed in the form of the minimum allowable hourly wage. Establishment of multiplying coefficients for territorial, sectoral and professional criteria regulated by the relevant decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.";
2) state in the following wording:
"Article 134. Ensuring an increase in the level of real content wages
Ensuring an increase in the level of the real content of wages includes the indexation of wages in connection with the growth of consumer prices for goods and services in an amount not lower than the predicted level of inflation, which forms the basis for the formation of the main characteristics of the federal budget for the next financial year and planning period.
State bodies, bodies local government, state and municipal institutions index wages in accordance with the procedure established by labor legislation and other regulatory legal acts containing norms labor law, other employers - in the manner prescribed by the collective agreement, agreements, local regulations in the amount not lower than the predicted level of inflation, which is the basis for the formation of the main characteristics of the federal budget for the next financial year and planning period. ";
3) Part one of Article 135 after the words "remuneration" shall be supplemented with the following sentence:
"Wage systems may not set a lower wage than that determined on the basis of the minimum allowable hourly wage established in accordance with the norms of the current legislation.".
4) recognize as invalid.
Article 2
To introduce into Federal Law No. 82-FZ of June 19, 2000 "On the Minimum Wage" (Sobraniye Zakonodatelstva Rossiyskoy Federatsii, 2000, No. 26, Art. 2729; 2002, No. 18, Art. 1722; 2003, No. 40, Art. 3818; 2005, N 1, item 24; 2007, N 17, item 1930; 2008, N 26, item ZOY; 2011, N 23, item 3246; 2012, N 50, item 6955; 2013, N 49, item 6337; 2014, N 49, item 6917) the following changes:
1) Article 1 shall be stated in the following wording:
"To establish the minimum hourly wage from January 1, 2017 in the amount of 100 rubles per hour.
The minimum hourly wage is used to calculate the wages of an employee. The application of the minimum hourly wage for other purposes is not allowed.
The minimum wage used to determine the amount of benefits for temporary disability, for pregnancy and childbirth, as well as for other purposes of compulsory social insurance, cannot be lower than the subsistence minimum for the able-bodied population as a whole in the Russian Federation, determined in accordance with Article 4 Federal Law of October 24, 1997 N 134-FZ "On the subsistence minimum in the Russian Federation" for the last quarter. In the event of a decrease in the subsistence minimum for the able-bodied population compared to the previous quarter, the minimum wage | labor cannot be reduced.";
2) in Article 2 after the word "minimum" add the word "hourly";
3) in Article 3 the words "regulation of wages and" shall be deleted.
Article 3
EXPLANATORY NOTE
To the draft federal law "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts in Part of Establishing the Minimum Hourly Wage, as well as Establishing the Minimum Wage Applied for the Purposes of Compulsory Social Insurance, Not Below the Subsistence Minimum for the Working Population as a Whole in the Russian Federation"
The draft of this federal law proposes a qualitatively different approach to regulating the procedure for remuneration by establishing an hourly minimum wage. The bill proposes to establish a minimum hourly wage of 100 rubles per hour. The establishment of multiplying factors according to territorial, sectoral and professional criteria is regulated by the relevant decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, the above hourly minimum wage applies only to the calculation of the employee's wages. The application of the minimum hourly wage for other purposes is not allowed. In particular, when determining the amount of benefits for temporary disability, for pregnancy and childbirth, as well as for other purposes of compulsory social insurance, a monthly minimum wage will be applied not lower than the subsistence minimum for the able-bodied population as a whole in the Russian Federation.
In addition, in order to prevent the leveling of the guarantees provided by this draft federal law to employees, the obligation of employers to annually index the wages of employees in an amount not lower than the predicted level of inflation is established.
It should be noted that the share of domestic gross product in the Russian Federation, attributable to wages, is 25 percent, while in some countries, such as France, Sweden, Germany, this figure reaches 35-55 percent. This factor negatively affects the economic activity of the population and the state of the economy as a whole, making it impossible to maintain consumer demand at the proper level.
As for the specific minimum wages in various countries, in some cases they are several times higher than the currently established minimum wage in the Russian Federation (6,204 rubles). Speaking of international standards wages, it is worth mentioning that the International Labor Office has established that the minimum hourly wage cannot be less than three US dollars.
So, for example, in Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, the level of wages varies from 5 to 18.7 euros per hour. In the USA, Canada, Australia, and Japan, work has long been valued by hours worked.
According to Eurostat, despite the financial crisis, the average hourly wage in the EU increased by 8.6 percent between 2008 and 2012. The highest level of wages in 2013 was recorded in Sweden (39 euros per hour) and Denmark (38.1 euros per hour), the lowest rate among European countries - in Bulgaria (3.7 euros) and Romania (4.4 Euro). On average, the cost of one hour of labor in the EU countries is 23.1 euros, and in the eurozone countries - 27.6 euros. In the United States, the minimum hourly wage is maintained at $7 (13 states have a higher level of $8.5). Back in 2013, the average hourly rate in the United States rose to $24.01.
Indexation of wages in accordance with the current labor law is one of the main guarantees of the employee, allowing the latter to count on a real increase in his monetary content. In this regard, the second novelty of the bill is the establishment of the obligation of the employer to annually index the wages of employees in the amount not lower than the predicted level of inflation.
The measures proposed by the bill are reasonable and are designed to eliminate the current injustice against citizens, more than 20 million of whom are already below the poverty line.
CONCLUSION
On the draft federal law "On amendments to certain legislative acts in terms of establishing the minimum hourly wage, as well as establishing the minimum wage used for the purposes of compulsory social insurance, not lower than the subsistence minimum for the able-bodied population as a whole in the Russian Federation" *, submitted to the State Duma by the deputies of the State Duma S.M. Mironov, O.A. Nilov, M.V. Emelyanov and others
In accordance with Part 3 of Article 104 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Russian Federation considered a draft federal law, taking into account the submitted financial and economic justification.
The bill proposes to establish from January 1, 2017 an hourly minimum wage in the amount of 100 rubles.
In addition, the draft law proposes the establishment of multiplying coefficients according to territorial, sectoral and professional criteria, which will be regulated by the relevant decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, it is not clear from the draft law and the explanatory note to it what kind of multiplying coefficients are meant.
In accordance with Article 133 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the monthly salary of an employee who has fully worked out the norm of working hours for this period and fulfilled labor standards (labor duties) cannot be lower than the minimum wage, which is established federal law. Thus, the bill creates uncertainty in legal regulation relevant relationships.
It should be noted that calendar months differ in the fund of working time. Consequently, an employee who has an hourly wage rate will receive a different monthly salary depending on the number of hours worked during a calendar month. If the amount of the monthly tariff rate or salary is set for the employee, then the amount of the payment will not depend on the number of working hours in the calendar month, but the cost of an hour of his working time will change monthly. Taking into account the fact that in the Russian Federation, labor contracts are mainly concluded for an indefinite period and monthly tariff rates and salaries, including for low-paid workers, it is now more rational to apply the minimum monthly wage.
The bill also proposes to introduce two different minimum wages, one, as indicated above, for calculating the wages of an employee (hourly), and the second for determining the amount of benefits for temporary disability, for pregnancy and childbirth, for other purposes of compulsory social insurance ( not lower than the subsistence level for the able-bodied population as a whole in the Russian Federation).
The changes proposed by the draft law will entail, in particular, a change in the amount of insurance coverage for compulsory social insurance in case of temporary disability and in connection with motherhood, which is the subject of regulation of the Federal Law "On Compulsory Social Insurance in case of temporary disability and in connection with motherhood", according to article I2 of which the specified compulsory social insurance is aimed at compensating citizens for lost earnings or additional expenses in connection with the occurrence of an insured event.
At the same time, neither explanatory note, nor the financial and economic justification for the draft law do not contain any statistical and quantitative data on the recipients of insurance coverage, as well as calculations of the economic consequences of making the above changes.
Given the above, the Government of the Russian Federation does not support the submitted draft federal law.
According to the current labor legislation in the Russian Federation, there is several types of wages.
- Salary – this species reward is the most common. Represents a fixed amount of wages, for one working month. The provision on this type of remuneration is fixed in the employment contract.
- piecework wages- from the name it follows that the amount that the employee will receive at the end of the work directly depends on the work done by him. This type of remuneration does not depend on the number of hours. The provision on this type of remuneration is also fixed in the employment contract if we are talking about permanent work, or (which happens most often) in a service contract, since it is much easier to pay for specific services or work done not at a salary or an hourly rate , but to accomplish a specific task.
- Hourly pay– This type of remuneration is based primarily on the number of hours worked. When calculating wages, the employee is guaranteed to receive the remuneration due to him, regardless of the quality and quantity of the work performed. Most often, a contract for the payment of wages of this type is concluded with technical or administrative personnel, since during their work it is important to actually be at the workplace, and not the work done.
The question of the profitability of this type of remuneration is a rather controversial thing. In order to make it easier to decide, it is worth considering the pros and cons specifically for the employee and the employer as a whole.
Who benefits and when
pros:
| Employee | Employer |
|---|---|
| Guaranteed wages for all the time that the employee spends at his workplace. Regardless of the quality and quantity of the work done. | Allows you to calculate as accurately as possible the amount that is due to the employee for the hours worked. |
| In the event of overtime, it helps to receive the surcharge due to them at an hourly rate. | It helps to increase "work discipline" - if an employee is often late, then the time of being late is not included in his working day, and payment is not provided for this. |
| When working, for example, as a teacher, it helps to calculate the actual employment, since it can be different for a teacher every day. | When changing the length of the working day, it helps to avoid disputes and conflict situations with the employee. |
Minuses:
| Employee | Employer |
|---|---|
| The employer, taking advantage of the fact that payment is made by the hour, can give a disproportionately difficult task that is either difficult or impossible to complete in an hour. As a result, the employee will receive payment per hour, but this will serve as a reason for the legal deprivation of the bonus allowance. | Since, in fact, the data labor relations remuneration is not for the quality or quantity of work done, the employee can take advantage of this situation and “sit out” working time while receiving a legitimate remuneration, which the employer cannot prevent from paying. |
| Incorrectness in the calculations between the employee and the employer on the fact of labor relations. | Mandatory introduction of new posts. We need personnel who will deal with the calculation of the hours worked by employees, the quality of their work done, as well as the amounts required to be paid. |
| Irregular working hours, which most often pursue this type of remuneration for work. | Work efficiency decreases, since the employee is guaranteed to receive the money due to him by law, as a result, he will try to spend as much time as possible on simple work operations. |
Most often, such a calculation of wages occurs in those professions that require being in the workplace and remuneration for this. For example, a security worker/guard. What is required of him, first of all, is not the quality of the work he performs, but the amount of time that he spent at the facility during his working day.
Or this type of payment for work can be beneficial when working as a teacher. If we consider the specifics, one day a teacher can have 7 working hours, the next day - 5. Accordingly, for a more accurate calculation of remuneration, it is necessary to apply an hourly calculation.
What does it depend on
Hourly wages primarily depend on the amount of time an employee spent at their workplace. When calculating remuneration per hour, the quality and quantity of the work done is not taken into account, only the time at the workplace is taken into account.
The employer is not entitled to non-payment of the hourly rate, even if at that time the employee was not directly involved in the production operation, but was simply at the workplace.
If the employee arrived later than the appointed time in the contract, or left work earlier than expected, in addition to sanctions in the form of disciplinary sanctions, which can be expressed in the form of a warning or reprimand, the employer also has the right not to pay wages for the time that the employee actually was not at work.
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Calculation examples
It is worth recalling that wages for this type of remuneration are calculated from the specific time spent by the employee at the workplace. To calculate this time in production must be entered additional posts, whose responsibilities will include specific operations for calculating the estimated amount.
If such calculations are made by the head himself, then with some degree of probability they may be incorrect, and subsequently challenged when contacting the labor inspectorate.
If the payroll at the enterprise is personally handled by its head, it is recommended always check the actual time spent at the workplace with the one indicated in the payroll.
In the event of discrepancies, adhere to next scenario:
If the value of the damage caused is less than 50,000 rubles, then you should apply to the Magistrate's Court. In the case of more than 50,000 rubles, it is worth contacting the district court.
- The amount of the hourly rate prescribed in the contract.
- The specific time that was worked at the workplace.
If the hourly rate is too low, it is recommended to compare the amount received with the minimum wage for a given time, since the employer is not entitled to pay less than the minimum wage.
Also exists many services with online calculators that allow you to calculate hourly wages quickly and correctly.
And so, to find out a specific amount, you must use the following formula:
hourly rate * number of hours worked = salary
In an example, it looks like this. The security guard receives under the contract for one hour of hours worked 100 rubles. In just a month, in total, he got 120 hours worked.
100 * 120 = 12,000 rubles
According to the current labor legislation, the total remuneration received per month cannot be less than the minimum wage (minimum wage). On the this moment, from May 01, 2018, the amount of the minimum wage is set at 11 163 rubles.
An employee cannot receive less than this amount. Even if the number of hours worked, as well as remuneration for them, is less than the minimum wage.
In the event of a situation in which an employee receives less than the minimum amount established by labor law, the employer must supplement to the minimum wage(even if, according to the calculation, the salary is less than the amount required by law).
How it is reflected in the documents
According to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the procedure for hourly wages must be prescribed in the employment contract and the order for admission to work.
In the employment contract, the provision on the hourly rate must be fixed without fail, in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. In addition to the provision itself, the contract must contain a specific payment for the hour worked, as well as the rate of hours that the employee must work in a calendar month.
According to the employment contract, with hourly wages the employee must not work more than 40 hours in a full-time work week. Also in the employment contract, the days of issuance of wages must be indicated without fail. Their number must be at least two.
In the order for admission to workplace you must first install paydays based on hours worked, Secondly, rate per hour, and thirdly, normative plan that the employee will be required to comply with.
The nuances of calculating vacation pay
Regardless of the type of organization (budgetary or public sector), as well as the contingent of employees employed in the work of this organization is applied standard scheme for calculating vacation pay.
It is necessary to know the salary paid for each month during the last year of work. Divide this number by the number of months, as well as by 29.3 (a fixed daily rate, which the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation offers for calculation).
The standard vacation is 21 days, therefore, the amount received after dividing by 29.3 must be multiplied by 21.
In practice, it looks like this. Let's say that for all the last 12 months the employee received the same salary equal to 10,000 rubles.
- January - 10,000 rubles
- February - 10,000 rubles
- March - 10,000 rubles
- April - 10,000 rubles
- May - 10,000 rubles
- June - 10,000 rubles
- July - 10,000 rubles
- August - 10,000 rubles
- September - 10,000 rubles
- October - 10,000 rubles
- November - 10,000 rubles
- December - 10,000 rubles
As a result, the amount comes out to be 120,000 rubles. This amount must be divided by the number of months worked, that is, by 12.
10,000 / 29.3 = 341.3 rubles
341.3 * 21 \u003d 7167.3 rubles - the amount of vacation pay
If we take the calculation of public sector employees (for example, doctors), the calculation takes place exactly according to the same scheme, the only number of days due for vacation will be more (not 21, but 60), from which the amount of vacation pay will be higher.
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MOSCOW, January 16 - RIA Novosti. LDPR deputies, headed by Vice Speaker Igor Lebedev, submitted to the State Duma a bill establishing the minimum allowable hourly wage in Russia in the amount of 100 rubles per hour from January 1, 2015, Yaroslav Nilov, one of the authors of the document, told RIA Novosti.
Accordingly, the standard minimum monthly payment will be, according to the authors of the bill, about 16-17 thousand rubles.
At the same time, the minimum hourly wage, according to the initiative, will not be used for other purposes, for example, when determining the amount of temporary disability benefits, maternity benefits, and so on. For these and other purposes of compulsory social insurance, the minimum wage (SMIC) established by law will continue to apply. From January 1, 2014, the minimum wage is 5,554 rubles.
According to the parliamentarians, the subsistence minimum established today in the amount of just over 7,000 rubles does not comply with the recommendations of the experts of the International Labor Office, according to which the minimum hourly wage should be at least $3 per hour. In most European countries, a significantly higher level of hourly wages is set than in Russia. So, in Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Croatia, this level ranges from 18.7 euros to 5 euros.
According to the financial and economic justification, taking into account the projected inflation rate of 4.9% in 2015, the total additional volume of required federal budget resources next year is estimated at 251 billion - 230.9 billion rubles.
Earlier, the deputies sent the bill to the government for review. According to Nilov, the Cabinet of Ministers does not know what the economic consequences of the adoption of the bill will be, and therefore does not support it. In addition, Andrey Isaev (ER), the head of the relevant Duma committee on labor, social policy and veterans' affairs, told RIA Novosti earlier that he considers raising the minimum wage to the subsistence level as a more important task than setting the minimum hourly wage.
What should the living wage be?
Director of the All-Russian Center for Living Standards Vyacheslav Bobkov (November 2013):“Our social policy is aimed at ensuring that we focus on a complete family with two children. An employee must receive a salary for himself and for the maintenance of a child, which means that he must receive a double subsistence minimum. Today, the subsistence minimum for an able-bodied worker is a little less than 8 thousand rubles, it means he needs twice as much. From this follows the minimum wage, to which we should strive."
Member of the Labor Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, social policy and Veterans Affairs Mikhail Tarasenko:“I believe that the minimum wage in our country is catastrophically and even tragically underestimated. In our subsistence level there are no expenses for the Internet, for personal transport - something that in all developed countries is present and strictly dosed. We live in the 21st century, when new types of services have appeared, and all indicators of the subsistence minimum are from the 19th century."
How they are trying to bring the minimum wage to a living wage
In accordance with Labor Code the minimum wage is established simultaneously throughout the territory of the Russian Federation by federal law and cannot be lower than the subsistence minimum for the able-bodied population. However, the introduction of this norm of the Labor Code has been postponed, and the corresponding law has not yet been adopted.
At the end of November, the Federation Council approved a law on raising the minimum wage to 5,554 thousand rubles a month from January 2014.
Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation Andrey Pudov:"In the action plan (to bring the minimum wage to the living minimum), we provided that its implementation should be no later than by 2018."
How the Ministry of Labor intends to equalize the disproportions in wages between professions
According to Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets, wage policy should be taken under special control, in connection with which this year the Ministry of Labor and the government's social bloc initiated several bills. In particular, Golodets noted, a proposal was approved to limit the salaries of heads of state budget institutions, now the government is discussing a bill to limit the "golden parachutes" for the heads of state companies and state corporations.
Russian President Vladimir Putin: "We still have a large property differentiation. The incomes of the most wealthy citizens are approximately, I want to say this separately, this is our problem, indeed, it is 16 times higher than the incomes of the least wealthy. And in recent years, this gap, unfortunately, has practically not been reduced. The minimum amount wages in the next few years should be equal to the level of the subsistence minimum.At the same time, it is necessary, of course, to improve the very mechanisms for determining the subsistence minimum and the minimum wage, making them more modern and more fair."
State Duma deputies refused to transfer workers Russian organizations for hourly wages with a minimum rate of 100 rubles per hour. This initiative has been discussed for more than 10 years, but officials still have doubts about the need for its implementation. Therefore, the State Duma rejected the relevant bill in the plenary session.
What happened?
State Duma deputies voted against the adoption of bill No. 393-7 on the minimum hourly wage, the author of which is the Just Russia faction. The initiative was part of a complex system social support population developed by parliamentarians.
100 rubles per hour: a lot or a little
The bill proposed to abandon the current system of calculating the minimum wage per month and switch to hourly wages. Each worker was to be paid 100 rubles per hour of work. The deputies proposed to use this indicator exclusively for calculating wages, and for other purposes, deputies continue to use the subsistence minimum for the able-bodied population as a whole in the Russian Federation.
According to the idea of the parliamentarians, workers should not receive less than 100 rubles per hour. And every year the hourly pay was supposed to grow, taking into account the projected inflation, representatives of the Just Russia party insisted. However, even taking into account the last planned increase in the minimum wage (already supported by the deputies in the first reading), the hourly wage significantly exceeds its size. So, from May 1, 2018, the minimum wage should be 11,163 rubles (now 9,489 rubles), and at an hourly rate of 100 rubles, the monthly minimum wage would be about 16,800 rubles. After all, for one day of work with an 8-hour shift, the employee would receive at least 800 rubles. And this is almost 1.5 times more than the minimum wage proposed by the President of Russia. Therefore, the transition to hourly pay from this side is beneficial to the population, but not beneficial to officials and employers.
However, it should be noted that for the first time officials started talking about changing the rules for calculating the minimum wage almost 12 years ago. Legislative initiatives were periodically submitted to the State Duma, but they were rejected or postponed until "better times". But the most interesting thing is that all these years it was proposed to pay 100 rubles per hour of work. Life over the past 10 years has changed dramatically, but the cost of work, even within the minimum wage, is still refused to be increased.
Hourly pay: pros and cons
The government admits that hourly wages are not new. This mechanism works in many European countries, therefore, most likely, it will appear in Russia. But so far officials cannot afford to abandon the existing system.
For example, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov is sure that hourly wages are very beneficial for businesses. Employers will have the opportunity not to overpay unemployed employees. At the same time, according to the minister, the minimum wage should not be raised sharply so as not to increase the burden on business. As for the rights of workers, with the transition to hourly pay, employers will no longer be able to increase the length of the working day if they do not pay for the additional time worked by the employee.
Minister of Labor and social protection Maxim Topilin does not support his colleague. According to him , new system wages does not guarantee that the employer will not specifically reduce the number of working hours, while demanding increased productivity. It will not be possible to verify this fact, and citizens will actually find themselves in a situation where they either work a lot for less money, or do not work at all. And such a situation in the current crisis will only lead to an increase in the level of poverty in the country, analysts warn.
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