Mobilization holidays – Picture of the day – Kommersant

The State Duma on Tuesday adopted a number of initiatives to support citizens mobilized for a special military operation (SVO) in Ukraine. The parties not only unanimously approved all the discussed measures, but also proposed to supplement and expand some of them. Thus, representatives of the Just Russia – For Truth (SRZP) and New People factions proposed replacing credit holidays for mobilized Russians with a credit amnesty. So far, this proposal has met with understanding, but not approval.

State Duma September 27 accepted amendments to the Labor Code and a number of other laws, according to which Russians called up for a military operation jobs will be saved. The deputies responded to requests from citizens, explained the head of the labor committee, Yaroslav Nilov (LDPR).

According to the amendments to the Labor Code, citizens will be able to return to work within three months after completing military service.

“A new legal regulation is being introduced, which was not typical of labor legislation before: the labor contract is suspended,” Mr. Nilov noted. “The employer has the right to take another employee for a vacant position, who will have to stop his activity when the former employee returns to his workplace.” In addition, the deputy added, the wife of a mobilized citizen cannot be fired as a matter of priority and without her consent be involved in overtime work. No one raised any objections, and the deputies adopted the amendments immediately in the second and third readings.

The bill on release mobilized and their families from penalties for late payment of contributions for overhaul and housing and communal services. At the same time, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin instructed the profile committee, together with the government, to work out the issue of a complete exemption from paying fees for overhaul of families of military personnel participating in the SVO. First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing Pavel Kachkaev (ER) promised to report on this issue next week.

The most serious discussion caused first reading of the bill credit holidays for mobilized citizens. The co-author of the draft, the chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Financial Market, Anatoly Aksakov (SRZP), emphasized that the document was submitted by representatives of all five Duma factions, and said that by the second reading, the bill will be made an amendment on the termination of credit obligations of a mobilized citizen in the event of a serious injury (in the original version, they are terminated only in the event of death). The authors also propose extending credit holidays to those who are already participating in the CBO since February 24.

Andrei Alshevsky (ER) asked what to do in the event of the death of a serviceman, if the loan agreement is drawn up for his wife. Anatoly Aksakov replied that, perhaps, by the second reading there will be a rule according to which debt obligations will be terminated in this case as well. Deputy Finance Minister Aleksey Moiseev promised that this issue would definitely be resolved by the second reading.

Will the banks stop issuing loans to “military-age guys”, asked Valery Skrug (ER). Mr. Aksakov acknowledged that “risks for banks are increasing, and they will obviously look at these risks carefully.”

Then the Deputy Minister of Finance took the floor again. “Look, as the Minister of Defense said, we have 25 million people in this pool. If banks want to stop working with 25 million working, young, healthy citizens, I don’t know who they will work with then,” Alexey Moiseev said.

Oleg Nilov (SRZP) proposed instead of credit holidays to declare a credit amnesty for all combatants. Mr. Moiseev objected that there was no need to write off debts, because “the payment for staying on the fronts of the NMD will be quite high” and the financial situation of the mobilized citizens “will not worsen, but improve.” But this argument did not convince Sardana Avksentieva (“New People”), who also advocated a “full-fledged credit amnesty”. “You can, of course, make such a decision, but at the same time you need to keep in mind at whose expense the banquet is. Everything will fall on the shoulders of credit and microfinance organizations,” Anatoly Aksakov retorted, explaining that this would lead to an increase in interest rates.

Aleksey Kurinny (KPRF) proposed to build a system of state insurance for such cases. Mr. Aksakov recognized such a formulation of the issue as fair, but complained about the short timeframe: “We need to pass the law as soon as possible so that people can calmly carry out their combat missions.” And Aleksey Moiseev recalled that there is a law on compulsory state insurance of personnel, which applies to all military personnel and persons equated to them. As a result, the bill was supported by all factions, and it will be considered in the second and third readings on September 28.

Ksenia Veretennikova