Putin promised to prevent an increase in the working week

The duration of the working week in Russia will not be increased, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin promised, answering questions from deputies in the State Duma. “I have always been and will be against increasing the duration of the working week,” he emphasized.

According to Finmarket , the prime minister also stated that henceforth would be against "the application of other completely unreasonable methods of profit during the current work or during the modernization of the economy." This is unacceptable, he believes, since the effect can be the opposite expected.

To restore order in the field of labor safety is a direct duty of the state, the prime minister believes.

Earlier, we recall, the oligarch, the owner of the ONEXIMA Mikhail Prokhorov proposed to completely revise the Labor Code in order to "liberate the employee."

The amendments that he and the RSP proposed to be made to the Labor Code are aimed at allowing Russians to work 60 hours a week. The norm of the 60-hour working week is already contained in the current Labor Code, assured Prokhorov.

“The main problem is that no one reads the modern Labor Code; the 60-hour work week, I am not the author of these amendments, this is the norm of current legislation. Article 284. And when it was introduced? It was introduced in the 88th by the Communists,” he said.

Prokhorov’s opponents referred to the fact that if the employee is now given the right to additional work, then the RSPP proposal for a 60-hour working week would make it possible to force him to this.