Vladimir Putin signed the law on increasing the minimum wage, the relevant law placed on the web-portal of legal information.

In may the minimum wage will be eleven 163 rubles per month, equaling the cost of living. The implementation of the law will affect three million people and among them 1, 6 million employees of state and municipal institutions.

in the justification to the project it was noted that the strengthening of public sector wages this year will spend 39, 3 billion.

Originally it was planned to equate the minimum wage to a living wage in 2019, however, at the meeting of Vladimir Putin With the head of Federation of independent trade unions Mikhail Shmakov he made the initiative to speed up the decision, moving it to may 1
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