B. In the area of modernizing labor relations:
- Developing and adopting new labor legislation, which should provide for real
protection of the rights of workers while observing the interests of employers, increase the
flexibility of labor relations and opportunities for their adaptation to the changing economic
situation, and contribute to an increase in the mobility of the workforce and to a squeezingout
of “informal” labor relations.
- Reorienting employment policy from the artificial support of inefficient
employment in combination with the payment of a small benefit to the registered
unemployed toward the creation of an effective system for the return to work of persons who
have lost jobs, the prevention of chronic and long unemployment, and the creation of a
system of socially oriented restructuring of enterprises.
- Raising to a new level efforts to improve labor conditions and labor protections,
which will require uniting on the basis of principles of joint partnership the efforts of state
authorities at all levels, trade unions, and employer associations.
- Gradually including in wages current budget expenditures (over and above
minimum social standards guaranteed by the state) on education, public health, and social
services, as well as expenditures on maintaining housing and communal services.
- Gradually increasing (in accordance with financial and economic capacity) the
amount of the minimum labor compensation to the level of the subsistence minimum,
simultaneously eliminating the connection between the amounts of numerous social
payments and the minimum wage.
- Developing contractual relations between workers and employers in the process of
defining labor norms and conditions.
- Creating a system of social assessment of federal laws, programs, standards, and
norms under development, considering aspects of their influence on the position of the
population, including in the employment arena.