In Russia, can switch to 4-day work week

August 13 2019 10

The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR) sent proposals to the Russian Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (Ministry of Labor) to reduce the existing working week to four days. Indeed, according to the studies of the Federal Labor and Employment Service (Rostrud) of Russia and the largest Russian company Internet Head Recruitment (recruitment) Head Hunter, reducing the working week is one of the five most popular ideas for optimizing labor laws.

We propose to consider this issue in the Russian tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations, taking into account existing systems of remuneration, differences in working hours and other features of the organization of labor in Russia.

- the statement of the Department of Public Relations of the FNPR Administration says on the organization’s official website.

At the same time, Elena Kosakovskaya, Deputy Head of the Department of Social and Labor Relations and Social Partnership of the FNPR, noted that enterprises in Russia are not transferring to a four-day or three-day work week for good reasons. They (enterprises) do this in connection with financial difficulties, which, in turn, leads to a significant reduction in the wages of workers.

Kosakovskaya emphasized that the FNPR supports the idea of shortening the working week as a means of optimizing the time of work and rest, but with the mandatory preservation of the previous salary. Unfortunately, she did not specify who would voluntarily agree to pay the same salary for less time worked. How many other “useful” departments in the FNPR gushing with “good” ideas are also not specified.

It should be recalled that two months earlier, the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at the International Labor Conference in Geneva, said that a four-day work week could become the basis of a social and labor contract in the future. The Prime Minister then noted that technological progress does not stand still, and not only leads to a reduction in jobs, but also reduces the amount of time spent on labor. He drew attention to the fact that new professions are appearing, and old ones are becoming a thing of the past, therefore new approaches to the working day and workplace are needed.

And before that, the State Duma deputy from the LDPR, Vasily Vlasov, turned to the head of the Ministry of Labor, Maxim Topilin, with a request to consider the advisability of reducing the length of the working week for non-smoking citizens from 40 to 35 hours.

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SERGEY SERGEEVICS

+3

13 August 2019 15: 41

And what's the catch of this idea, you need to work and develop jobs, rather than reduce the daily rate.
Joe Cook

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13 August 2019 15: 58

And kindergartens, schools? Who will work? This is voluntarism of pure water.
Bakht

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13 August 2019 16: 17

The idea may not be bad. But there are many nuances.
Igor Pavlovich

+1

13 August 2019 16: 57

We also need the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR) to send proposals to the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection (Ministry of Labor) of Russia on the introduction of three meals a day in Russia - on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays ... It will be more harmonious ...
steelmaker

+1

13 August 2019 19: 42

They don’t know what to come up with so that people don’t pay.
1. Bakht
  
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  13 August 2019 20: 42
  
  Lecture by Karl Marx "Wages, price and profit" 1865.
  
  Due to the operation of the basic economic law of capitalism and other objective laws, wages in bourgeois society tend to decrease, down to a level that provides only a living wage.
  
  In this particular case, in the absence of competition, wages will necessarily be reduced to a minimum. By competition is meant a system of socialism. In its absence, it does not make sense to fight for a wage increase.
  
  What the worker sells is not directly his labor, but his labor, which he transfers to the temporary disposal of the capitalist. This is so true that the laws - I do not know how in England, but in any case in some continental countries - establish the maximum period for which it is allowed to sell their labor. If it were allowed to sell labor for any period, then slavery would immediately be restored. If such a sale encompassed, for example, the entire life of a worker, it would immediately turn him into a lifelong slave to his employer ...
  
  Now it’s clear why the retirement age is increasing?
  In general, it would be funny if it were not scary. On the one hand, the Government extends the retirement period (i.e. introduces slavery). And on the other hand, he says that he does not need so many working hands.
Sergey Latyshev

-1

14 August 2019 08: 59

Ah, the old "trial" idea.
Say something and see how the people react.

Well, to show "care" about the people ... and how with payment - silence, they say, there is enough ersatz sausage for everyone ...
Bulanov

+1

14 August 2019 10: 29

First you need to establish the statutory cost of the working hour, below which the employer has no right to pay.
1. Bakht
  
  +2
  
  14 August 2019 22: 38
  
  This is a dangerous idea. A fixed payment for a working hour may not be bad, but they want to reduce the number of working hours. Need a minimum wage. But there is a risk that entrepreneurs will reduce any salary to the minimum.
  
  Cobblestone is the weapon of the proletariat.
  
  But where is the proletariat?
  There was another idea.
  
  Deputies are the servants of the people.
  
  Of course, the servant must live better than the master. So - you need to legislatively fix the deputy’s salary depending on the average salary in the country. If the average salary is 50 thousand, then the deputy's salary cannot exceed 100 thousand. And their pension is on a common basis. And tax returns ... I think I began to write a fantastic story.
g1washntwn

+2

14 August 2019 10: 47

What is going to cut there? To whom, deputies? Personally, I don’t remember when I worked exactly on the timesheet, on average an unofficial processing every month. The normalizers, as a class, have died out, they are keeping the report card, so long as it does not exceed the statutory labor protection allowance, they put it in your teeth for 8 days and try to be indignant, competitors are in the queue behind the fence.