Grigory Pasko: On the Invention of Working Vacations
The young pregnant military serviceman Response apropos By Grigory Pasko, journalist The information agency RIA Novosti has reported that president of Russia Dmitry Medvedev left from 4 August on a week-long working vacation. It is expected that until the end of the week Medvedev will visit cities situated on the Volga. On the journey, son and wife will be accompanying the president. The words «working vacation» were highlighted by me, not by RIA Novosti. The fact is that in the Code of Laws on Labor of the Russian Federation there is no such concept – «working vacation». I suspect that this is an example of the know-how of the Kremlin political technologists and bureaucrats in the administration of the president. But then the Code of Laws on Labor does have an Article 71 – «Order of granting vacations». In it is said that that vacation for the first year of work shall be granted to workers upon the expiration of eleven months of uninterrupted work at… an enterprise, in an institution, an organization. Prior to the expiration of eleven months of uninterrupted work, vacation shall be granted to: women – before leave for pregnancy and birth or immediately after it; workers less than eighteen years old; military service personnel discharged into the reserve and directed to work in the order of organized enlistment…