The social block of the government believes the wrong situation, when the minimum wage below a living wage, said in a speech in the Federation Council, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets. “Last year we increased the minimum wage, it amounted to 7,500 rubles.
If you remember, according to the Labour code the minimum wage shall not be less than the subsistence minimum. To this figure we should be close at the latest in 2020, but the step that we are going to approach this figure, is in discussions,” she said.
Currently, in Russia, wages below the subsistence level receive 4.8 million people, of which 1.8 million are workers of budgetary sphere, said the Deputy Prime Minister. Poor working population — a very irregular phenomenon.
If a person works, he should get a normal, decent wages…
We would like to get away from a situation when we have the working poor,” — said Golodets.
In the second quarter of 2016, the subsistence minimum per capita amounted to RUB 9956, for the working-age population — 10 722 RUB.
PS
wages below the subsistence level, it is slavery, or where?
