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Posted: Wed May 27, 2020 1:41 pm
The State Duma is ready to reduce the moratorium on fines for late payment of housing and communal services
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"Servants of the people" in the service of capital
At a meeting of the Committee on Energy, the State Duma deputy announced that lawmakers are supporting the reduction of the moratorium on levying fines and cutting utility bills to non-payers for housing and communal services, TASS reports . The reason for such measures is the emerging conflict between generating, network and resource-supplying companies and consumers.
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"According to the deputy, the terms of the decision can be reduced to the 1st day of the month following the month in which the non-working days set by the regulatory legal act of the President of the Russian Federation expire ," TASS quoted his interlocutor from the State Duma.
The President announced that since May 12 a single non-working day period has been completed for all industries. Accordingly, the moratorium on the prohibition of charging fines for utilities may end already on June 1 .
According to the explanations of the Ministry of Construction, this moratorium applies only to consumers who cannot pay for housing and communal services remotely. To do this, they must enter into an installment contract with a utility provider. The grace period has so far been determined until January 1 of next year.
The Council of Energy Producers (EIT) believes that a decrease in collection in the housing and communal services will not only increase debt in the housing and utilities sector, but also negatively affect the economy of the country as a whole, related industries will suffer, and there will be a threat of lower tax revenues.
The owners of many “generating”, “network” and “resource-supplying” companies, which had broken up (and continue to break) during bourgeois “reforms” of the once unified energy system, are ready to join in the struggle for floating profit. After all, they are so “effective owners” that they cannot survive even a temporary decrease in collection of payments.
And here legislators come to their aid. Having taken care of the “brewing conflict”, they are ready to cancel, even on duty talk about supporting the economy, even the most ridiculous benefits for the constantly impoverished people, whose “servants” they call themselves. Well, in fact, ordinary people do not have such difficulties with paying for "communal" as, for example , the Russian Orthodox Church.
It doesn’t matter which party the deputy was from who voiced the readiness of the “people's representatives” to once again solve business problems at the expense of ordinary citizens. The entire state machine defends the interests of the ruling class of the big bourgeoisie today. Only by taking power from the capitalists will the working people be able to get a chance to really change their lives for the better.
https://www.rotfront.su/v-gosdume-gotov ... roki-mora/
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The government received the right to regulate labor relations bypassing the Labor Code of the Russian Federation
05/27/2020
27
What should workers expect?
The State Duma allowed the Government of the Russian Federation to change labor relations without amending the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. The corresponding bill was adopted in the third reading as part of the work on the third “anti-virus” package of laws.
Labor Code of the Russian Federation
The adopted law makes it possible "to establish the specifics of the legal regulation of labor relations and other relations directly related to them, taking into account the opinion of the Russian tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations."
We are talking about such standards as the duration of the working day, fixed-term contracts, overtime work, Deputy Oleg Shein explained at a meeting of the State Duma . Now the government will be able to correct these norms without coordination with the main labor legislation, as well as adopt resolutions directly contradicting it, which was previously not allowed at the legislative level. This provision will be valid until the end of this year.
The law was adopted by the State Duma during a flaring crisis in the economy. Many citizens have already lost their jobs ; salaries are being cut everywhere . Against this background, the opportunity given to the government to ignore the Labor Code of the Russian Federation does not resemble an attempt to protect the interests of workers. On the contrary, this decision gives greater freedom of maneuver for employers in their attempts to solve their problems at the expense of employees .
The law adopted by the State Duma is commented by Oleg Babich , head of the legal department of the Confederation of Labor of Russia ( KTR ), member of the Central Committee of the ROT FRONT party :
The adopted federal law gives the Government of the Russian Federation the right to independently, albeit taking into account the opinion of the Russian tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations , establish the specifics of the legal regulation of labor relations and other relations directly related to them. This provision will be valid until December 31, 2020.
Initially, the draft law did not imply participation in the RTK process , but during its discussion, due to explicit disapproval from the trade unions, the Government made some concession, which expressed itself in the need for preliminary discussion of the “features” proposed for adoption within the RTK with trade unions and employers.
When the draft law was discussed in the RTK, representatives of the Russian Confederation of Labor spoke out strongly against its adoption, since it contradicts the basic principles of labor relations regulation enshrined in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. In particular, article 5 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation states that labor law standards contained in other federal laws must comply with this Code. In the event of a conflict between this Code and another federal law containing labor law, this Code shall apply. If a newly adopted federal law containing labor law norms is contrary to this Code, then this federal law shall apply subject to the introduction of appropriate amendments to this Code.
The Labor Code of the Russian Federation in Article 252 determines that the specifics of the regulation of labor relations are established by labor legislation and other regulatory legal acts containing labor law, collective agreements, agreements, local regulatory acts. Moreover, the features of labor regulation, which entail a decrease in the level of guarantees to employees, restriction of their rights, increase of their disciplinary and (or) material liability, can be established exclusively by this Code or in cases and in the manner prescribed by them.
Thus, the new law breaks the current system when the Labor Code of the Russian Federation was the central source of labor law, and any by-laws are adopted exclusively in its development and should not contradict it.
Regarding the question of the extent of the legal regulation of labor relations, which by the end of the current year may be carried out by the Government bypassing the legislative authority, it should be noted the controversy of the assertion that the new rules will allow the Government to arbitrarily change fundamental labor rights, including the right of workers to 8- hour working day. At the same time, it is possible that certain “hotheads” in state bodies, as well as employers, will try to take advantage of a temporarily opened legal loophole.
https://www.rotfront.su/pravitelstvo-po ... vo-reguli/
Google Translator
The Russian people yearn for the Soviet Union more every day.
05/26/2020
167
"Servants of the people" in the service of capital
At a meeting of the Committee on Energy, the State Duma deputy announced that lawmakers are supporting the reduction of the moratorium on levying fines and cutting utility bills to non-payers for housing and communal services, TASS reports . The reason for such measures is the emerging conflict between generating, network and resource-supplying companies and consumers.
Payable Debt Email
"According to the deputy, the terms of the decision can be reduced to the 1st day of the month following the month in which the non-working days set by the regulatory legal act of the President of the Russian Federation expire ," TASS quoted his interlocutor from the State Duma.
The President announced that since May 12 a single non-working day period has been completed for all industries. Accordingly, the moratorium on the prohibition of charging fines for utilities may end already on June 1 .
According to the explanations of the Ministry of Construction, this moratorium applies only to consumers who cannot pay for housing and communal services remotely. To do this, they must enter into an installment contract with a utility provider. The grace period has so far been determined until January 1 of next year.
The Council of Energy Producers (EIT) believes that a decrease in collection in the housing and communal services will not only increase debt in the housing and utilities sector, but also negatively affect the economy of the country as a whole, related industries will suffer, and there will be a threat of lower tax revenues.
The owners of many “generating”, “network” and “resource-supplying” companies, which had broken up (and continue to break) during bourgeois “reforms” of the once unified energy system, are ready to join in the struggle for floating profit. After all, they are so “effective owners” that they cannot survive even a temporary decrease in collection of payments.
And here legislators come to their aid. Having taken care of the “brewing conflict”, they are ready to cancel, even on duty talk about supporting the economy, even the most ridiculous benefits for the constantly impoverished people, whose “servants” they call themselves. Well, in fact, ordinary people do not have such difficulties with paying for "communal" as, for example , the Russian Orthodox Church.
It doesn’t matter which party the deputy was from who voiced the readiness of the “people's representatives” to once again solve business problems at the expense of ordinary citizens. The entire state machine defends the interests of the ruling class of the big bourgeoisie today. Only by taking power from the capitalists will the working people be able to get a chance to really change their lives for the better.
https://www.rotfront.su/v-gosdume-gotov ... roki-mora/
Google Translator
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The government received the right to regulate labor relations bypassing the Labor Code of the Russian Federation
05/27/2020
27
What should workers expect?
The State Duma allowed the Government of the Russian Federation to change labor relations without amending the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. The corresponding bill was adopted in the third reading as part of the work on the third “anti-virus” package of laws.
Labor Code of the Russian Federation
The adopted law makes it possible "to establish the specifics of the legal regulation of labor relations and other relations directly related to them, taking into account the opinion of the Russian tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations."
We are talking about such standards as the duration of the working day, fixed-term contracts, overtime work, Deputy Oleg Shein explained at a meeting of the State Duma . Now the government will be able to correct these norms without coordination with the main labor legislation, as well as adopt resolutions directly contradicting it, which was previously not allowed at the legislative level. This provision will be valid until the end of this year.
The law was adopted by the State Duma during a flaring crisis in the economy. Many citizens have already lost their jobs ; salaries are being cut everywhere . Against this background, the opportunity given to the government to ignore the Labor Code of the Russian Federation does not resemble an attempt to protect the interests of workers. On the contrary, this decision gives greater freedom of maneuver for employers in their attempts to solve their problems at the expense of employees .
The law adopted by the State Duma is commented by Oleg Babich , head of the legal department of the Confederation of Labor of Russia ( KTR ), member of the Central Committee of the ROT FRONT party :
The adopted federal law gives the Government of the Russian Federation the right to independently, albeit taking into account the opinion of the Russian tripartite commission for the regulation of social and labor relations , establish the specifics of the legal regulation of labor relations and other relations directly related to them. This provision will be valid until December 31, 2020.
Initially, the draft law did not imply participation in the RTK process , but during its discussion, due to explicit disapproval from the trade unions, the Government made some concession, which expressed itself in the need for preliminary discussion of the “features” proposed for adoption within the RTK with trade unions and employers.
When the draft law was discussed in the RTK, representatives of the Russian Confederation of Labor spoke out strongly against its adoption, since it contradicts the basic principles of labor relations regulation enshrined in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. In particular, article 5 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation states that labor law standards contained in other federal laws must comply with this Code. In the event of a conflict between this Code and another federal law containing labor law, this Code shall apply. If a newly adopted federal law containing labor law norms is contrary to this Code, then this federal law shall apply subject to the introduction of appropriate amendments to this Code.
The Labor Code of the Russian Federation in Article 252 determines that the specifics of the regulation of labor relations are established by labor legislation and other regulatory legal acts containing labor law, collective agreements, agreements, local regulatory acts. Moreover, the features of labor regulation, which entail a decrease in the level of guarantees to employees, restriction of their rights, increase of their disciplinary and (or) material liability, can be established exclusively by this Code or in cases and in the manner prescribed by them.
Thus, the new law breaks the current system when the Labor Code of the Russian Federation was the central source of labor law, and any by-laws are adopted exclusively in its development and should not contradict it.
Regarding the question of the extent of the legal regulation of labor relations, which by the end of the current year may be carried out by the Government bypassing the legislative authority, it should be noted the controversy of the assertion that the new rules will allow the Government to arbitrarily change fundamental labor rights, including the right of workers to 8- hour working day. At the same time, it is possible that certain “hotheads” in state bodies, as well as employers, will try to take advantage of a temporarily opened legal loophole.
https://www.rotfront.su/pravitelstvo-po ... vo-reguli/
Google Translator
The Russian people yearn for the Soviet Union more every day.