Monitoring of the Federal Legislation dated 31.01.2005

General Agreement between All-Russia Associations of Trade-Unions, All-Russia Associations of Employers and the Government of the Russian Federation for the Years 2005-2007 (Moscow, December 29, 2004)

The Agreement specifies general principles of regulation of social and labour relations at the federal level for the years 2005-2007 and the joint actions of the parties in their implementation.

One of the goals of the Agreement is prevention of the growth of the total unemployment in excess of 7.9% in 2005 and 2006 and 7.8% in 2007.

In the protocol of divergence over the need to bring the minimum amount of labour remuneration to the cost of living of the able-bodied population, the Russian Trilateral Commission representing all-Russia associations of trade-unions suggested to ensure a stepwise equalisation having fixed the minimum amount of labour remuneration from January 1, 2005 at the level of Rbl 720 per month, Rbl 1,100 per month from May 1, 2006, Rbl 2,000 per month from January 1, 2006 and not lower than the cost of living from January 1, 2008. The Government of the Russian Federation suggested the minimum amount of labour remuneration in 2006 not lower than Rbl 1,100 per month.

Uniform Recommendations for the Systems of Labour Remuneration of Employees of Organisations Financed from the Budgets at the Federal, Regional and Local Levels for the Year 2005 (Endorsed by the Decision of the Russian Trilateral Commission for the Regulation of the Social and Labour Relations of December 29, 2004, Protocol 4)

The recommendations for the terms of labour remuneration of the employees of budget-supported institutions serve as basis for the development of the appropriate recommendations by trilateral commissions for the regulation of labour relations of the subjects of the Russian Federation and municipal formations in organisation of labour remuneration of the employees of the budget-supported sphere, as well as in the determination of the amounts of financing of institutions of public health, education, science, culture and other institutions of the budget-supported sphere at various levels of management. In 2005, it is recommended to apply the tariff system of labour remuneration of the employees of the budget-supported sphere using the Uniform Tariff while preserving the 18 grades and the actual inter-grade tariff coefficients specifying the correlation of the rates of the 1st and the 18th grades as 1:4.5.

Order of the Ministry of Public Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation No. 312 of December 9, 2004 on the Endorsement of the Procedure of Calculation and Confirmation of the Length of State Service Permitting to Get the Length-of-Service Pension for the Federal State Servants and Determine the Compliance of Positions Permitting to Include the Periods of Service (Work) in the Length of State Service

The procedure regulates the issues pertaining to the calculation of the length of state service permitting to get the length-of-service pension for the federal state servants, confirmation of this length of service, determination of compliance of positions, inclusion in the length of state service permitting to get the length-of-service pension of the periods of work in individual positions including the terms of service in them.

Registered in the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation on January 18, 2005. Reg. No. 6270.