The Ministry of labour and social protection has no plans to change the list of public holidays in 2020. About it reported in a press-Department service.
It was explained that the normative legal act of the government on the transfer of the holidays that coincide with holidays, other days must be officially published no later than two months before the next calendar year.
edit the list of public holidays in 2020 is not planned, — said the Ministry.
Now the project of this document for 2021 is in development, said the Ministry of labor.
It clarifies the RIA Novosti, citing the head of the Federation of independent trade unions of Russia Michael Shmakov at the session of the Russian tripartite Commission on regulation socially-labour relations Union representatives proposed to accelerate the coordination of production calendar for 2021. In their opinion, it is necessary to avoid “all sorts of exotic suggestions.”
At the end of 2019 in Russia has started a broad public discussion about the need to make the day last day of the year. According to supporters of the idea, it would allow the Russians in a relaxed atmosphere to prepare for the holiday, not being distracted from work. Opponents of the innovations pointed to the fact that the festive holidays and long.
With the permission of President Vladimir Putin, the regions are free to decide this question. In 2019 many governors recommended that the enterprises to make 31 December weekends for workers. The Russian leader promised to “calmly” to perform the public mood, so as not to damage the gardeners and horticulturists, selecting them for an extra day in may when people work in the gardens. However, in the final year, he said, was “very little time for making decisions of this kind.”
In June 2020, the head of the Federation Council Committee on economic policy Andrey Kutepov sent to the Ministry of labor’s initiative to reduce the new year holidays to compensate for non-working days in the period of the pandemic. He suggested that in 2021 to cut new year holidays to 1-3 Jan.
The amendments, if approved, could be made to article 112 of the Labour code of the Russian Federation. However, the Ministry with the proposal disagreed, noting that to change the holidays only by agreement with employees or employers.
Thus a press-the Secretary of President Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin has no particular position to reduce the Christmas holidays. For ��th words, the authorities in this matter are based on established practice.
Long new year’s weekend was introduced in Russia in 2005. Before public holidays were considered to be only three days are 1, 2 and 7 January.
In connection with the coronavirus pandemic in the spring of 2020, the head of state set non-working days from 30 March to 3 April, and then this regime has been extended to April 30. The weekend was also declared the days from 6 to 8 may, the day of postponed because of the epidemic of the Victory parade on 24 June and the day of voting on amendments to the Constitution 1 July.
In June, as he wrote NEWS.ru member of state Duma Committee on labour and social policy Andrei Isayev said that the 31 December will be announced a day off, “if most people want to get it as a holiday.” The MP also agreed that the new year holidays 2021 to reduce should not. A long vacation will help tourism and the hotel business, which suffered from the pandemic, suggested the Deputy.
