The Ministry of Labor compensates employers for the cost of temporary employment

Compensation for partial wages in the organization of temporary employment of employees under dismissal,will increase the size of the minimum wage

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of RUSSIA intends, in the face of sanctions pressure, to compensate employers for the costs of partial wages in case of temporary disability at the rate of one minimum wage per employee. This is stated in the official response of the department to the request of the HEAD of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy Andrei Kutepov, TASS reports.

“In the context of the introduction of external sanctions pressure, the Russian Ministry of Labor is developing additional measures to support employment and the labor market. In particular, on the organization of temporary employment of workers at risk of dismissal, which will allow them to maintain employment for the period of adaptation of enterprises to new production and logistics conditions and support the income of citizens, ”the Ministry of Labor said in a response.

According to the document, employers are provided with compensation for the costs of partial wages when organizing temporary employment for employees of organizations at risk of dismissal, as well as the logistics of work. The amount of payment per employee per month is equal to the size of one minimum wage, increased by insurance contributions to state non-budgetary funds and the regional coefficient.

In 2021, the minimum wage was 12,792 rubles. On January 1, 2022, this amount increased to RUB 13,890.

The head of the Ministry of Labor said that mass layoffs in Russia are not planned Business

Since the end of February, after the imposition of sanctions by Western countries, dozens of foreign companies have stopped working in Russia. Only McDonald's, which has decided to temporarily close all of its 850 restaurants in Russia, estimated the number of employees at 62,000. As long as the company will pay them a salary. The Swedish company IKEA also promised to "support" all 15,000 of its employees.

After reports of the departure of foreign companies, the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, expressed the hope that "not millions of people will be left without work, but fewer." He called ensuring social stability in this vein a priority issue for the government.

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On March 17, the government decided to allocate 40 billion rubles to support employment, of which 25.5 billion rubles. will go to the creation of temporary vacancies and the organization of paid public works, 7 billion rubles. - for the implementation of regional employment programs and 6 billion rubles. for training the unemployed.

On March 28, Minister of Labor and Social Protection Anton Kotyakov said that employers had notified the Ministry of Labor of plans to lay off about 50,000 employees, while about 55 million citizens are employed in the country. “There are no plans for mass layoffs in the labor market at the moment,” he said.