There are fewer working days in May than most months and how this will affect the wages of Grozny’s residents, says Alexander Yuzhalin, head of legal practice at SuperJob.
You have a salary or a salary + bonus
If you work 5 days a week and you have a fixed salary, you will receive the same salary for May as for the other months. Pursuant to Art. 112 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, salaried employees should not lose their salary in the months in which there are non-working days, as well as «additional days off» established by the Government of the Russian Federation.
However, if you also receive a bonus (and the bonus is not a legally guaranteed payment for meeting the criteria set by the employer), it will all depend on what bonus conditions will be set in your organization.
Do you have an hourly rate or a piece rate system?
The SuperJob expert explains that if you have an hourly wage or a piecework system, your monthly salary depends on how much you actually worked or how much product you have produced.
Of course, in May you will work fewer hours (or days) and by this logic you should get less money. However, the Labor Code of the Russian Federation reduces the inequality compared to the «wages» item. Employers are required to pay employees who do not receive wages additional remuneration for holidays during which they did not work. The amount of such remuneration is determined by the employer independently (Article 112 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation).
For example, if you have an hourly wage, you work in a standard 5-day working week, and you have not been involved in additional work on non-working days (May 1 and 9), then you should receive additional remuneration for these 2 days. And if they were involved, the payout is twice as high, emphasizes Alexander Yuzhalin of SuperJob.
Do you work on the May holidays?
If you were brought to work on a non-working day (May 1 and 9) or on a non-working day (schedule), you are entitled to an increased remuneration for that day.
Work on a weekend or public holiday is payable at least twice the amount:
• piecework — not less than double piece rates;
• employees whose work is paid according to daily and hourly tariff rates — in the amount of at least twice the daily or hourly rate;
• employees receiving remuneration (official salary):
— in the amount of at least one daily or hourly rate exceeding the remuneration, if work during the weekend or a public holiday was performed within the monthly standard of working time (this is the case when the working day is a holiday according to the schedule);
— in the amount of at least twice the daily or hourly rate above the salary, if the work was performed in excess of the monthly standard of working time (this takes place when the employer engages the employee to work at the weekend or vacation separately, i.e. on the basis of a separate order).
At the same time, certain amounts of remuneration for work on a weekend or a public holiday may be determined by collective agreement, a local legal act in the organization. In any event, these amounts may not be less than the double payment.
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