Lukashenko signed a decree on additional measures to protect workers from non-payments under contracts.
In case of non-compliance by economic entities with these requirements, the recovery of such payments is carried out in an out-of-court manner. The Department of State Labor Inspection submits a proposal to the enforcement authorities to initiate enforcement proceedings in the interests of the citizen.
In addition, to enhance the social protection of workers, the decree increases the amount of extraordinary payments withheld from employers to offset wage arrears, from 1.5 to 3 budgets of the subsistence minimum.
As reported by BELTA, the corresponding draft decree was recently discussed at a meeting of the President with the leadership of the Council of Ministers. At that time, it was proposed to extend the same pre-trial debt recovery system that currently exists for unpaid wages to rewards under civil law contracts. This approach was supported by the head of state following the meeting.
The Minister of Labor and Social Protection Andrei Lobovich explained to journalists that such a form of relationship between employers and workers, as contracts, is gaining popularity. Last year, about 650,000 people worked under civil law contracts. Of these, more than 220,000 worked solely under such contracts.
However, this has also led to an increase in citizens' appeals to the Department of State Labor Inspection regarding the non-payment of rewards. "Accordingly, there is a need to regulate issues of non-payment of rewards under civil law contracts analogously to the non-payment of wages," the minister noted.
BELTA