“According to our forecasts to 5% of workers will work remotely after the lifting of restrictive measures, and that one in twenty employed a citizen,” she said. Buhtiarova also dismissed today that the labour market and its conditions has changed, in connection with which the issues of regulation of remote employment is particularly relevant.
According to the Deputy Minister, almost 6 million people, which is 11% of employed people in the period of a complex epidemiological situation worked remotely. Now, according to operational monitoring conducted on the portal “Work in Russia” on remote employment are about 9.4% of employees.
Today, the bill on remote employment is preparing for the first reading in the state Duma. It is talking about its three forms: distance, time distance and combined when the employee part time working in the office or in the factory, and the rest from home or another location. Separately prescribed provisions on hours of work and rest of employees.
Another bill introduced in the state Duma proposes to prohibit employers to track exactly where the employee is working remote, July 9, it will consider the working group of the Russian trilateral Commission.
