Golodets asked Putin to raise the minimum wage
Moscow. March 21. INTERFAX.RU Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets asked the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with a request to give an instruction to raise the minimum wage (SMIC).
“I ask You, Mr President, give the order, including the Ministry of labour, because it is a key question for productivity,” said Golodets at the meeting of the presidential Council of the Russian Federation for strategic development and priority projects on Tuesday.
Raising the minimum wage will immediately give us the output from our system the low-productivity workers Mestalla Golodets
Golodets added that the government is ready to provide assistance to “these people (occupying low-productivity jobs — if) has been previously retrained and did not feel any difficulties”.
A week ago Golodets drew attention to the fact that almost 5 million people work in Russia, though it remains below the poverty line.
“That poverty, which is fixed in the country is poverty of the working population, is a unique phenomenon of the working poor. We do not have such qualifications, where a sufficient wage 7800 roubles (the minimum wage in the Russian Federation),” she said March 14.
Golodets recalled that in Russia, 4.9 million people receive wages at the level of the minimum wage, at the same time, according to her, even after leaving school the young man has every right to expect a higher salary.