Citizens of the three times increase fines for hiring illegal workers – Proceedings

Citizens of the three times increase fines for hiring illegal workers – Proceedings

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The lower house of parliament Raziet Nath (” United Russia “) has prepared a draft law amending the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation. Amendments to the Administrative Code are aimed at tightening the responsibility of individuals for the use of illegal labor. In particular, measures of administrative penalties for this type of offense is proposed to raise 3 times. According to the legislator, current levels of fines do not encourage people to give it illegal foreign workers, while often more profitable for them to attract illegal immigrants and pay a fine than to provide a workplace rossiyaninu.

At present, the responsibility for hiring illegal workers spelled out in Art. 18.15 of the Administrative Code “illegal employment activities in the Russian Federation of a foreign citizen or stateless person.” It is defined for today ranks among a large fine for citizens to attract illegal immigrants – from 2 thousand to 5 thousand rubles and legal entities – from 250 to 800 thousand rubles. This, according to Raziet Nath, often forcing companies to use citizens to attract illegal immigrants, as only threatens virtually painless fine from 2 to 5 thousand rubles.

The draft law suggests a threefold increase in the minimum threshold and the maximum size of administrative fine, imposed on the citizen – that is, from 6 to 15 thousand.

– The current situation is that people simply pay insignificant fines for offenses earning many times more than in the case of the execution of the chain of legal actions. Unfortunately, the small fines for offenders save quite compensate for salaries that they pay illegal immigrants without proper deductions, unwilling to adequately remunerate their compatriots – says Nath. – However, such behavior undermines the domestic labor market, so you need to legally prevent the possibility of earning a violation of the law.

A member of the Public Council under the Federal Migration Service of Russia, a specialist in the field of migration law Bahram Ismailov told “Izvestia” that citizens often attract illegal labor.

– But the penalties for individuals are set smaller as a kitchen renovation or a fence in the country are acts not imeyushih under a for-profit, as is the case with the construction companies. In addition, individuals using migrant labor without clearance may apply and another very popular now in the department of migration control article “Promoting illegal labor migration,” – said the expert. – In such cases, as a rule, migrants expelled from the country, and his employer pays the penalty of up to 40 thousand rubles. Earlier in this article massively involved owners “rubber flats”, and now the department of migration control arranges serial raids in the Moscow region is to identify migrants who illegally engaged in labor activities.

Coordinator of the movement “Stop illegal “Eugene Gracey said that the main problem with the hiring of illegal foreign labor represent the organization and not the citizens.

– The main problem is created not individuals, and organizations. Although often in organizations people are working on the patent, which issued to individuals, and the permissions that are allowed to work in organizations that are sold at all the right and left – said Gracey. – What is needed is a comprehensive revision of the law. Main categories where flourishes such a mess – it’s catering, grocery stores, which generally need to hire people with great care, as well as construction and housing and communal services.

Many migrants who agree to work illegally, as a result fall on the scam, employers are left without livelihoods and the possibility of returning to his homeland, moving from the status of illegal workers in the position of an illegal migrant who has delayed 90 days of legal stay in Russia. The intended impact of this chain is the rise in crime among illegal immigrants.

In the spring of this year, the head of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovskiy, speaking in the Federation Council, said that the country is about 3.7 million people who are over 90 days of his legal stay in Russia. Approximately 40% of these 3.7 million people are foreigners aged 17 to 29 years, almost do not speak Russian.