The PMR Labor Code amendments

The Supreme Council amended in the final reading the Labor Code, according to which a unified procedure and frequency for conducting training, testing knowledge of labor protection and obtaining permission to perform work in the field of labor protection is established.

Taking into consideration the adopted amendments, paragraph 1 of Article 222 of the Labor Code of the PMR has been amended. Thus, heads of organizations and specialists are required to undergo labor protection training, as well as an examination of knowledge of labor protection requirements once every five years, and employees - once every three years. The heads of organizations that are not engaged in production and where high-risk work is not performed are trained in labor protection in the form of self-training. Employees of such organizations are instructed on labor protection once a year. The deputy's initiative made it possible to simplify the mechanism for training in labor protection in the event of a transfer to another place of work.

Amendments were proposed in the course of work on the law-in-draft for the second reading, which relate to the protection of the rights of workers of retirement age. Amendments were made earlier to the Labor Code, according to which the employer has the right to conclude fixed-term employment contracts (for at least 1 year) with employees who have reached retirement age and have been assigned a pension (55 years old for women and 60 years old for men). When switching from an indefinite to a fixed-term employment contract, the employee is fired and re-hired.

Thus, a number of articles of the Pridnestrovian Labor Code have been amended, which read: an employee of retirement age (55 and 60 years) with an assigned pension, upon transition from an indefinite to a fixed-term employment contract, writes a statement on the basis of which compensation for unused vacation is not paid, but the right to unused days of annual paid leave before dismissal is retained. An employee of retirement age can take the leave that he is entitled to by law at any time after the transition to a fixed-term employment contract after the introduction of amendments to the Labor Code.