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In Russia they want to double overtime and recall employees from vacations
The Ministry of Economic Development plans to propose doubling the permissible duration of overtime work and allowing employees of hazardous industries to be recalled from vacation. Officials also plan to abolish the shortened 36-hour workweek for rural women. The RBC publication got acquainted with the materials of the bill on amendments to the Labor Code.
The Ministry of Economic Development will propose increasing the permissible overtime time to 240 hours per year. Currently, the Labor Code allows an employer to assign an employee up to 120 hours of overtime work per year. At the same time, the rule that you cannot prescribe more than four hours for two days in a row will not change.
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Officials will offer to pay double for overtime after the first 120 hours, RBC reports. According to the current law, the first two hours of overtime work are paid at one and a half times the rate, and subsequent hours at least double.
The bill proposes to allow workers in hazardous and hazardous industries to be recalled from vacation. In addition to them, the current law prohibits employers from interrupting the vacation of minor employees and pregnant women. Officials offer double pay for work during vacation.
If the bill is passed in its current form, rural women will have their 36-hour workweek abolished instead of the usual 40-hour workweek. In 2019, this benefit was approved by the State Duma, explaining this by the more difficult living conditions in which village women run their households and raise children. Now officials are proposing to leave a shortened week only for those who work in organizations of agriculture, forestry, hunting, fishing and fish farming.
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A month ago, amendments to the Labor Code were proposed by the Minister of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov. “People want to work more, businesses are willing to pay more,” he explained his idea to increase the limit on overtime.
According to a survey by the job search portal HeadHunter, almost a third of Russians overwork every day. Most of them cite high workload as the reason for this.
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