During the isolation, many Russians were able to evaluate the benefits of working remotely. If staff members continue to work from home legitimately? This broadcast channel “Russia 24” said a member of the Duma Committee for labor and social policy and veterans Affairs Andrey Isaev.
According to Isaev, from the point of view of the legislation to operate in remote mode, you can not only period of self-isolation.
“In the labor code includes a Chapter 49.1, which is dedicated to remote work”, – said the Deputy.
However, according to him, this Chapter “while it is not very efficient”: of the 67 million employees, only 30 thousand people working on udalenke.
“We decided to take account of new circumstances to prepare the change of the head, to make Supplement, such as the temporary transfer to the remote work – now this is a faced – said Isayev. Or partial translation on the remote work, when a few days the person works in the office or in the workplace, and a few days can work remotely.”
According to the Deputy, it can relate to the representatives of such professions as programmers, accountants, consultants, editors.
Now many who work remotely, work schedule stretched to 24 hours to bother with working questions anytime.
“It is also a very important point, so we made that the employee should have the right to be offline, should be private time of the employee for which the employer has no right to disturb him”, – Isayev said.
thus, according to him, should be installed and work schedule – the time at which the employee must be online and know that the management can contact him.
Isaev added that the involvement of an employee to the overtime should be paid accordingly – as overtime.
"We would like the first reading to adopt the bill in the spring session,” – said the Deputy.
In connection with the spread of coronavirus and relevant limits about one-sixth of the Russians switched to remote mode. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the all-Russia centre of studying of public opinion (VTSIOM). We are talking about 16 percent of respondents, most of whom are specialists with higher education.
