The payment of northern allowances, reaching up to 100% of the salary, can be extended to remote employees. This issue, as Izvestia found out on August 9, is being discussed by a group of deputies, which is finalizing the preparation of a bill on distance employment.
According to the vice-president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Fyodor Prokopov, at the moment this issue has not been settled in any way either in the draft law or in the current legislation and there is no decision on it yet.
The surcharges vary by location. For example, for work in the Sverdlovsk region, an increase of 15-20% of the salary is put, and in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug – 50%. In general, additional payments range from 15 to 100% of earnings.
At the same time, Maximilian Grishin, a lawyer at the Moscow office of the international law firm Ilyashev & Partners, is convinced that if an employee’s workplace is located in the territory where northern allowances are applied, then there is no reason not to pay them.
At the same time, according to Sergei Peskov, chairman of the Trud social movement, non-inclusion in the law of guarantees of payment of northern allowances for teleworkers will lead to a significant reduction in their income in this area, and if this becomes widespread, it will entail an outflow of population from the northern territories.
Read more in the article “Izvestia” dated August 10