I. Metshin: “Legislative rights of pre-pensioners should be strictly observed”

(KZN.RU, April 22). Kazan residents of pre-retirement age receive vocational training and additional vocational education. Today, 758 pre-pensioners are trained with the assistance of the Center for Employment of the Population of Kazan within the framework of the federal project “Older Generation” of the national project “Demography”.

Marat Khairullin, the director of the Center for Population Employment of Kazan, reported today at the staff meeting. Taking into account changes in the Federal Law “On Insurance Pensions”, appropriate changes were also made to the Law “On Employment in the RF”. “Due to the changes, the priority task for the population employment service is the preservation and development of the employment of citizens of pre-retirement age”, he marked. Due to an increase in the retirement age, the proportion of people of pre-retirement age in Kazan increased from 10.5% in 2018 to 13.7% in 2019.

The speaker explained that in order to help this category of Kazan citizens, 8 counseling centers were set up. Telephone hotlines for employment assistance for this category of people are working, monitoring of persons engaged in labor activities is organized. The work is being carried out with employers on issues of prohibiting the restriction of labor rights and freedoms citizens depending on age. Thus, since the beginning of the year, the specialists of the Employment Center held 17 meetings with employers.

“The Prosecutor’s Office, the Employment Center should closely monitor compliance with labor laws”, commented Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan. He suggested more actively introducing various training programs for pre-retirees, which are implemented throughout the Russian Federation.

The Employment Center pays special attention to the education of disabled people. This year, 18 of them have mastered such professions as a confectioner, boiler room operator, accountant, 1C user, electrician, and others.

In his report, M. Khairullin marked that from 2019, in order to increase the level of employment for disabled people, employers will begin to provide a subsidy for reimbursement of part of the labor costs of disabled people employed by state employment service agencies. “The subsidy is granted to organizations except for the state and municipal institutions on the basis of an agreement with the employment center”, he explained. The size of the subsidy for the payment of the labor of one disabled person per month is determined on the basis of the minimum wage added by the amount of insurance premiums to state extra-budgetary funds. More than 1.9 million rubles were allocated from the budget of the RT for the wages of 50 disabled people.

During the discussion, the Mayor of Kazan drew attention to another problem: the “grey” labor market. “There are different sides of the same coin. People do not pay taxes, but enjoy all the benefits, free schools and hospitals, but at the same time today they should think about retirement savings”, he said. This problem still concerns the self-employed as well. “When we started to deal with this topic, we understood that this is dozens of thousands of people who are currently engaged in the grey labor market”, he marked. The self-employed will have a support program that will be submitted to the public in the near future.