Keep workforce

The garment and footwear industry constitutes the glory and pride of Pridnestrovie. It is no coincidence that the attention shown to these sectors by the state. Earlier, in the framework of anti-crisis measures, support for sewers working on a give-and-take basis began to be provided in the summer of 2016. Then the raising factor in calculating the tax on income was reduced from 2 to 1.7.

In the course of the last plenary session, the deputies of the Supreme Council placed a shoulder on the sewing staff and shoemakers - they unanimously adopted amendments to the law “On Additional Measures aimed at stabilizing the PMR Economy”. The law-in-draft adopted in the first reading reflects the new support measures requested by the leaders of the people and the labor collectives of the sewing and shoe enterprises of the republic. Their position was supported by the Union of Agrarians, Industrialists and Enterpreneurs of Pridnestrovie.

The Deputy Minister of Economic Development, Maria Glushkova, who presented the law-in-draft to deputies, described its essence. The idea is that the state goes to reduce the tax burden for the enterprises of these industries, in turn, the administration of economic entities sends the saved money to increase the wages of workers in primary production. The coefficient was proposed to reduce the ratio when working with raw materials from 1.7 to 1.05. But at the same time, the state sets a mutually acceptable condition for industrialists: the average annual growth of the average wage of the main production workers (seamstresses and workers directly involved in the production of footwear) must be at least 7% annually.

The main goal of legislative innovations is to preserve the skilled labor resources of the clothing and footwear industries, to attract new employees. This step of the legislators, which they made at the suggestion of the government, is especially relevant now, when there is a shortage of workers, there has been an outflow to the neighboring states. According to statistics, the country lacks more than 400 needlewomen.

The period to which this provision is intended to extend is three years - from 2019 to 2021 inclusive.

In the final reading, the law-in-draft is planned to be adopted at the next plenary session. In the meantime, work to support the leading branches of the Pridnestrovian economy continues. In order to reduce personnel shortages, the government launched a legislative initiative to introduce a standard tax deduction for foreign specialists working in the sewing industry of the republic. The law-in-draft will be placed for consideration of the Supreme Council.