In Russia from 1 July 2017 will come into force amendments to the law “About the minimum wage”, in which the level of the minimum wage is increased from 7500 to 7800 rubles, reports TASS.
As stated by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets, the salary at the level of the minimum wage in Russia get 4.9 million.
16 may Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev said that in the next two years the increased minimum wage will be raised to the subsistence level, which in the first quarter of 2017 is 9909 rubles.
In early may, Medvedev instructed the Ministry of labor, Ministry of Finance and economic development ministries to prepare a draft Federal law to increase the minimum wage to the subsistence level of workers.
According to the head of Ministry of labor Maxim Topilin, the approach of the minimum wage to the regional subsistence minimum, you must provide by the fall of 2017.