President of Russia
  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search this website
President of Russia
Mobile version

President's
website
sections

  • Events
  • Structure
  • Videos and Photos
  • Documents
  • Contacts
  • Search
  • Search
  • For the Media
  • Subscribe
  • Directory
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • YouTube Channel
  • Русский

President's
website
resources

  • President of RussiaCurrent resource
  • The Constitution of Russia
  • State Insignia
  • Send a Letter
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website

Special
animal welfare
projects

  • Amur tiger
  • Beluga whale
  • Polar bear
  • Snow leopard
  • Far Eastern leopard

Legal
and technical
information

  • About website
  • Using website content
  • Personal data of website users
  • Contact website team

All content on this site is licensed under

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Presidential Executive Office2023
Events

Meeting with head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions Mikhail Shmakov

Vladimir Putin had a meeting with Chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia Mikhail Shmakov.

November 9, 2018
21:35
Novo-Ogaryovo, Moscow Region
With head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions Mikhail Shmakov.
Head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions Mikhail Shmakov.
With head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions Mikhail Shmakov.
With head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions Mikhail Shmakov.

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Mr Shmakov, you wanted to discuss social insurance problems, the system of social insurance and some issues related to the implementation of our decision on the minimum wage.

Chairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia Mikhail Shmakov Shmakov Mikhail Shmakov MikhailChairman of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia : Yes, absolutely.

On the whole, the system of mandatory social insurance is not improving. The system comprises temporary disability insurance, medical insurance and still pending – they are trying to adopt it – employment insurance. This work must continue since at present, for instance, the Budget Code is being drafted primarily by the Government’s financial block. This new Budget Code, its proposed new edition, does not take into account the Social Insurance Fund, in particular.

According to the most recent information, it is meant to be “dispersed” in the budget, which is wrong and will only weaken workers’ protection.

Vladimir Putin: What do you mean by “dispersed” in the budget?

Mikhail Shmakov: The issues addressed in the Social Insurance Fund will be distributed among different sections of that Budget Code. In fact, it means the Government will be able, to put it bluntly, to dip into the Fund for budget reasons. Thus there are a number of issues that must be addressed. But these are inter-agency issues, highly contested at times, and are difficult to solve.

What are our proposals? We have proposed setting up a council on reforming mandatory social insurance along all the four lines, say, under your guidance, under the aegis of the President of Russia, to be able to resolve all those inter-agency contradictions more easily. Then everyone will be enthusiastically engaged in this job.

Vladimir Putin: This is the Government’s domain but I am certainly ready to take part in it.

Mikhail Shmakov: We are talking about a council. Of course, the Government should work, as should employers together with us. However, having this status for a certain period would be very useful from our point of view until we come up with a definite concept to be complied with by everyone.

Vladimir Putin: All right, let us discuss that. How about the second issue?

Mikhail Shmakov: The second issue: we must follow up on the decisions made by the Constitutional Court that, on the one hand, the minimum wage does not include compensations and bonuses. On the other hand, the lowest salary – the first labour grade rate – cannot be below the minimum wage at any job.

Vladimir Putin: Yes, there is such a decision.

Mikhail Shmakov: Yes. Currently the Government, mainly the Ministry of Labour, is issuing clarifications contradicting this and saying that the rate can be lower whereas it cannot be below the minimum wage with compensations and bonuses. This means an amendment to the Labour Code is needed and we ask you to support this decision.

Vladimir Putin: Let us look into it.

<…>

Topics

  • Trade unions

Persons

  • Shmakov Mikhail

Publication status

Published in sections: News, Transcripts

Publication date: November 9, 2018, 21:35

Direct link: en.kremlin.ru/d/59081

Text version

Text
4
Photo

Share
Direct link
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59081
Share
  • VK
  • LiveJournal
  • Send by email
  • Print
Send by email

Official Website of the President of Russia:

Meeting with head of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions Mikhail Shmakov

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/59081

Last updated at November 10, 2018, 13:12

Официальные сетевые ресурсы

Президента России

Official Internet Resources

of the President of Russia

Русский Английский
  • For the Media
  • Version for People with Disabilities
  • Telegram channel
  • YouTube Channel
  • State Insignia
  • Send a Letter
  • Vladimir Putin’s Personal Website
  • Putin. 20 years

Presidential Executive Office
2023