“All this needs serious regulation, first of all, in order to protect the rights of workers who work remotely. Therefore, significant changes were prepared to chapter 49.1. (Labor Code. - RT ), which talks about telecommuting. We proposed to distinguish three types of such work: this is permanent remote work, this is a temporary transfer to remote work, and this is combined work, when an employee can partially work in an office, at a stationary workplace, partially stay at a remote work, ”Isaev explained.
He emphasized that the main purpose of the amendments is to protect the rights and interests of workers.
“We protect their right to save wages upon temporary transfer to remote work due to some extraordinary circumstances, protect the employee’s right to personal time, oblige the employer to resolve the issue of payment and provision of equipment to such an employee,” the deputy explained.
Isaev also emphasized that there should be a time “during which the employer should not bother the employee”.
“He must have the right to rest, a full right, which is guaranteed to everyone in the Russian Federation. In the event that the employer engages the employee outside the schedule of interaction established by him, or his personal time, this should be paid as overtime work. No less than one and a half times the first two hours and no less than double the next, ”the parliamentarian concluded.
Earlier, a bill on the regulation of remote work was introduced to the State Duma.
The draft law contains norms regarding working hours and rest of remote workers, it is said about the regulation of types of distance employment, the grounds for their application.