“In accordance with what was formulated at the beginning of our meeting, I will sign the necessary regulatory documents today,” he said after the meeting.
During the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova proposed to the head of state to introduce non-working days throughout the country from October 30 to November 7 due to the increase in the incidence of coronavirus.
Putin agreed to the proposal.
He stressed that the salaries of workers on non-working days should be preserved.
He called to bring down the peak of a new wave of the spread of coronavirus infection.
According to First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov, the introduction of non-working days could cost businesses about 60 billion rubles.
The government's proposed payment of one minimum wage for each employee employed in industries affected by the coronavirus could cover 2 million people, which will require about 27 billion rubles.