employees working remotely can extend the payment of Northern allowances. It is already discussing the working group preparing the second reading of the bill about remote work.
the Problem of the categories most important. The Northern territories of Russia are officially located within the Arctic circle. Their total area is about 5.5 million square kilometers, about one third of the total area of Russia: Yakutia, Murmansk and Magadan oblast, Kamchatka Krai, as well as individual parts and cities of Arkhangelsk, Tyumen, Irkutsk, Sakhalin regions, Republic of Komi, Krasnoyarsk and Khabarovsk region. In addition, in different periods of the category “equal to the North” is assigned to remote areas with difficult living conditions.
Officially, in the far North lives a little more than 11.5 million people (8 % of Russia’s population), but not less than 1.5 million Russians are working in the North on a rotational basis. They all get a salary regional coefficient and Northern allowance, reaching 1005 salary. And you have to decide what work to “distance” possible in these conditions and for what pay.
While the Labour code there are three types of remote work – permanent, temporary and combination, as well as the right of an employee on remote to be offline, that is, all the tasks that he, upon the instruction executes after the end of the day, will be paid as overtime. In addition, the issue of the accrual of additional payments for work experience in the North, ranging from 10 to 100 percent depending on location and period
the Problem is that under current law, the allowance is based on the employee located on the North of the enterprise even if he is in another place, including in a warmer climate. And if the work in the mines or in hazardous occupations malovozmozhnym in a remote format, it is for many other professions such variant is quite real.
Deputies will need to decide how to make copayments: the location of the company or at the place of work remote specialist.
“We have to understand how to pay: the location of the company or at the place where the remote employee is working. For example, if the company in Norilsk, a remote employee in Sochi if he North Supplement? And if on the contrary?” – the member of working group, Vice-President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs Fedor Prokopov.
But experts point out that companies could easily solve this problem by starting in the southern city branch – in this case, his employees are not “northerners”.
