Real wages of Russian citizens, according to the forecast, will return to the level of last year by 2018, said Deputy Minister of labour and social protection of Russia Lyubov Eltsova at the "round table" in the state Duma, organized by the Committee on labor, lipolytica and veterans Affairs.
"We are concerned about the dynamics of real wages. According to the analysis by the Ministry of economic development of the Russian Federation, in 2015, real wages may be reduced by 9, 8% of the previous year. In April 2015 She dropped by April last year (13, 2%. The recovery achieved in 2014, the level of real wages is expected in 2018, "said Eltsova, reports RIA" Novosti ".
review of the Ministry of labor, a measure of the resolution of the issue may become gradually bringing the minimum wage (SMIC) of the subsistence minimum, added the Deputy Minister." The share of workers with wages below the subsistence minimum of able-bodied residents, in our assessment, will increase from 3. 5 million people in 2013 to 5, 6 million people in 2015, " said Eltsova. The minimum wage in 2015 is 5 965 thousand rubles. The subsistence minimum in the Russian Federation for the 1st quarter of 2015 is set at $ 9 662 thousand rubles. In her expressions, the Ministry of labor proposes to set the minimum wage from 1 January 2016 at 7 189 thousand rubles." Predicted 64% of the subsistence minimum ", - said the Deputy Minister. In 2017, the minimum wage shall be 65% of the subsistence minimum for the 1st quarter of 2016, in 2018 75% of the subsistence minimum for the 1st quarter of 2017, 2019 - 85% of the subsistence minimum for the 1st quarter of 2018. Starting in 2020, the minimum wage required to reach the level of 100% of the subsistence minimum for the 1st quarter of the previous year. The magnitude of the minimum wage to be set lower than 1 January 2016 - 7 189 thousand rubles a month. For its part, the head of the state Duma on work, social policy and veterans ' Affairs Olga batalina said that the situation on the labour market in the Russian Federation is complex." She's a little unprecedented, because It is characterized by the fact that the labour market disappear quite numerous so-called postwar generation, and comes to the labour market of the generation 90's, not comparable in numbers. This is a very special experience, such experience of overcoming disasters such labor from Eastern Europe is not " - said the people's Deputy. In her expressions, in a similar situation with Russia are only two countries - Ukraine and Belarus who are experiencing the same problems on the labour market. According to the head of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, the indicators of the Russian economy was better than expected, but it is premature to talk about the fact that the crisis is over. June 1, the world Bank (WB) has improved the forecasts for Russia's GDP in 2015-2016

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