The government allowed companies to increase the duration of the work on the watch for three months on the backdrop of the spread of coronavirus. Thus, in exceptional cases, “taking into account opinion of elected body of primary trade Union organization” some watches can last for months. Also, the government is obliged to pay the employees time spent in quarantine during the period of perevalovka. At the same time, other relevant issues, in particular how to take out watch employees, if the facility had an outbreak of coronavirus, the document is not disclosed.The government approved a decree on the provisional regulations of work of shift workers in a pandemic coronavirus. According to the Labour code now the duration of the watch shall not exceed three months. Now the government “in exceptional cases, individual objects” allows employers to increase it by another three months “taking into account opinion of elected body of primary trade Union organization”.Increase possible “with the written consent of the employee, is furnished by the conclusion of the additional agreement to the labour contract”. In fact, many oil and gas companies have already extended watch more than three months, seeking to avoid the shift change at the facility due to the threat of the spread of coronavirus.If the change of the watch requires quarantine measures, according to the decision of the government, during the quarantine period (14 days) employees must be paid wages not lower than the daily rate, and the quarantine period is included in the employees on the way.The most difficult situation of officially known was at the construction shipyard of individuals in the Murmansk region, as well as in the Chayandinskoye field of “Gazprom”. At the end of April in social networks there was a video where the staff of one of the contractors working on the Chayandinskoye field, came to the rally. The workers were dissatisfied with the poor conditions of detention, complained about the lack of PPE and the fact that healthy people live in the same premises with potential sick people.However, the new decree does not regulate the procedure of companies in similar situations.Dmitry Kozlov March, on the eve of the introduction of restrictive quarantine measures, the Russian labour market showed stability. The unemployment rate as a year earlier, amounted to only 4.7%. Mass layoffs labor unions and recruiters don’t expect in April, despite the fact that no direct ban now introduced for 5% of Russian companies, which employ 3 million people. Until employers are more willing not to fire, and to reduce wages or force workers to unpaid leaves.Read more
