At a plenary session, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that prohibits employers from firing single mothers with children under 16 years of age and other persons who raise children of this age without mothers, TASS reports.
The document was submitted for consideration in August. Amendments are proposed to be made to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. According to current standards, it is not allowed to terminate an employment contract at the initiative of the employer, including with single mothers of children under 14 years of age or other persons who are raising children of this age without a mother. The bill proposes to change this norm, clarifying that employers, on their own initiative, cannot terminate contracts with single mothers and educators who raise children under 16 years of age.
“The relevance of the bill is due to the need to develop an integrated approach to solving socially significant (often painful) problems that simultaneously affect the interests of both the workers themselves and their minor children,” the authors of the initiative noted in the explanatory note. One of these situations, they pointed out, is the loss of a job by a single parent in the case “when he is dependent on a minor child receiving basic general education.” It is noted that children generally receive basic general education by the age of 16 years.
Source: Rosbalt
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