Roskachestvo told about cases of mandatory payment of the 13th salary

Russians should be paid the 13th salary, if it is specified in the employment contract. This was announced on December 6 by Evgenia Gankina, Director of the Roskachestvo Organizational Development Department.

"It is important for employees to remember that if the bonus is written in the documents, the employer must comply with the conditions, but if the payment is arbitrary, it is impossible to guarantee receipt," she said in an interview. "Lenta.Ru ".

According to Gankina, the practice of paying the 13th salary is widespread, mainly in large companies and is not widespread. Employee bonuses are awarded at the end of December or in January after the approval of the annual results. The Director noted that employers consider this payment as an incentive tool to motivate and retain employees.

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Earlier, on November 30, Svetlana Bessarab, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs, recalled that the 13th salary is not among the mandatory payments of the employer. According to her, the decision to charge an annual bonus remains solely within the competence of the employer and may be related to exceeding the planned targets of the enterprise.

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