Care for someone else's account

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Federal Law "On Amending the Article 33 of the Law of the Russian Federation" On State Guarantees and Compensations for Persons Who Work and Live in the Far North and Equivalent Territories "and Article 325 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation", according to which State entrepreneurs in areas of the Far North or localities equivalent to such areas are required to compensate their employees and their family members travel to rest areas.

In the Far East, the Chukotka Autonomous Region, the Magadan Region, Sakhalin and Yakutia, and partly the Khabarovsk Territory, the Amur Region and the Primorsky Territory, are fully covered by this standard. Thus, in the Khabarovsk Territory, about 70% of the territory is considered northern or equated to northern areas, in particular, the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur (population - 300 thousand people, the second largest city of the Khabarovsk Territory). EAO amendments will not affect.

Small and medium businesses took this news with pessimism. Experts believe that some entrepreneurs will go into the shadows, others will wind down the business, and others will begin to reduce staff or hire employees under fixed-term contracts.

Entrepreneurs believe that this law will only ruin them. Dmitry Sergeev, an entrepreneur from Magadan, predicts that he will most likely have to close his computer repair business because of this law.

Chairman of the Far Eastern Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Eugene Shulepov believes that the state shifts its social functions to entrepreneurs. "There is nothing to be surprised about, the expenses of businessmen are significantly increasing, and, logically, entrepreneurs are beginning to optimize taxes, raise prices for products, take workers under different forms of futures contracts (deducing them for the staff) ... Models and means, in order to optimize costs, Enough. Everyone will think, based on their own circumstances, I am sure E. Shulepov. - If the state introduces benefits for working people and does not compensate them, then entrepreneurship considers this unfair. It turns out that this is concern for people at someone else's expense. If the state is preoccupied with certain social guarantees, then it should pay these benefits. "

This, of course, a useful initiative for people may entail a higher cost of production. Competitiveness will further decline in the northern areas, said the director of the Far Eastern Market Research Institute, Doctor of Economic Sciences Vadim Zausayev.

“For the development of the Far East, such an initiative - to pay people to travel to places of rest - is definitely useful. But it’s impossible to add all this to the costs of businessmen, because products in the northern regions may become more expensive due to the increase in these production costs, said V. Zausayev. - If we proceed from the fact that the Far East is a territory of active development, then it is in the interests of the state to increase the demographic potential of the region. It is no accident that the development of the population is spelled out in the development strategy of the East of the country and the Baikal region.

It is necessary to strengthen the ties of the Far East with the European part of Russia, otherwise people will leave because they often cannot fly to their historic homeland, look at the cultural values ​​of the country (this is especially important for young people). If this is not, then the Far East will continue to leave. But this is the task of the state, not business. The social responsibility of entrepreneurship includes providing its employees with good wages, creating decent working conditions, and fulfilling all tax obligations, said V. Zausayev to EastRussia.Ru correspondent.

Entrepreneurs are beaten under this law, it is approved in an unacceptable form, co-chairman of the interregional branch of the public organization “Business Russia” in the Khabarovsk Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region Andrei Sukhorukov expressed an opinion.

In the Duma of Khabarovsk Krai already concerned about amendments to the law regulating compensation. Before it was adopted, the head of the regional parliament Viktor Chudov proposed to amend the adopted amendments. V. Chudov believes that more than 80% of small and medium-sized businesses in the north of the Far East will be unprofitable after the payment of such compensation. In this regard, he sent to the State Duma and the Federation Council a proposal: to provide compensation for travel expenses for recreation at the expense of the federal budget. To cover these costs, V. Chudov planned to receive 1,5 billion rubles. But from the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs came the answer: costs are not provided for by the federal budget.