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All with the family: parents of SVO fighters want to be allowed to take vacations with their children
Parents of the special operation participants will be able to go on vacation at the same time as their children. The bill was prepared by deputies, and the document will be sent to the government on February 21 (Izvestia has a copy). As Izvestia found out, the mechanism will work by analogy with the current norm for the spouses of fighters. The initiative was supported by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the CP, but United Russia reacted cautiously to it: first you need to understand how this will affect the work process of companies and what costs the business may incur.
The parents of the participants will be able to arrange a vacation with them.
Now the spouse of a member of the SVO can take a vacation on the same dates as her husband, who is in the special operation zone, and the employer has no right to refuse her. The same applies to female military personnel. The State Duma proposes to extend this right to parents of military personnel.
"This will ensure a unified approach to protecting the family of a serviceman as an integral institution, where both spouses and parents perform the most important function of moral and psychological support," the explanatory note says.
The bill, developed by LDPR deputies, will be sent to the government for consideration on February 21 (Izvestia has the text of the document). The initiative involves amendments to the law "On the status of military personnel."
The authors of the initiative note that during joint vacations with family, including with parents, the level of anxiety and post-traumatic stress conditions (PTSD) decreases in the military.
— The care and love of [parents] is more valuable than all possible awards, praises and titles. But the military can only see their relatives on vacation. Of course, a parent can still take a vacation at the same time as a child who is a soldier, but the problem is that employers are not always ready to agree on such a vacation," LDPR leader Leonid Slutsky told Izvestia.
In practice, the law will work by analogy with the existing measure in relation to military spouses. The employer will be obliged to provide a vacation to the parents of the participant of the CB, even if it is not scheduled according to schedule. If the relatives have already used all the days, then they should still be released at work, but already on unpaid leave. For example, if a military man rests for 45 days, and a parent is allowed only 28 calendar days under the Labor Code, the employer must provide him with an additional 17 days without pay.
To do this, you need to write a special application asking for the right to rest with your son / daughter. In the document, it is important to indicate the full name of the military, the name of his unit, as well as a certificate from his place of service, which confirms information about the dates of his vacation.
Such an initiative will not bring catastrophic losses either for the company, or for the national economy and the economy as a whole, believes Oleg Buklemishev, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University.
— Of course, many military men have wives, but there are fewer parents, especially working ones. It is unlikely that this will become widespread, so the costs for the employer and the company will be small," he told Izvestia.
How did other parties evaluate the initiative?
United Russia reacted cautiously to the bill.
— We need to see how much this will be to the detriment of the employer and whether it will disrupt the workflow. Today, in any case, employees have the right to take vacations at their own expense or at the expense of processing. If such a situation arises, I think everyone will cooperate. Therefore, I do not yet have an answer whether this measure should be fixed in law," Elena Tsunaeva, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs, told Izvestia.
She recalled that a law is already in force that allows close relatives of the participants of the SVR to take advantage of the right to additional unpaid leave of up to 35 days. Parents, wives, husbands and children of the wounded on the front line can take it.
At the same time, parents could be granted leave on the same dates as a military man if the latter does not have a wife and cannot take advantage of the existing law, says Tsunaeva.
The Communist Party of the Russian Federation supported the initiative, assessing it as humane and very timely. According to Nina Ostanina, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Family Protection, Fatherhood, Motherhood and Childhood, fighters should be able to see close relatives, including their parents.
In Just Russia, a similar idea was proposed in February 2024. Then deputy Yana Lantratova sent a letter to the head of the Ministry of Labor Anton Kotyakov with a request to grant military parents the right to go on vacation at the same time as their children. According to her, there were specific cases when mothers and fathers of the participants complained about the refusal of employers to provide such leave.
Izvestia sent a request to the Ministry of Labor to clarify the position of the department on this issue.
In total, there are over 150 laws in the country to support the fighters of the SVO. In particular, the State Duma recently allowed combat veterans to take up to 35 calendar days off per year without pay. According to the speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin, the additional days will allow the veterans of their military to get more time to recover their strength and health.
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