State Duma Committee approved legislation to raise the minimum wage to 7.5 thousand. Rub. – RBC

The State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy on Tuesday, May 10 recommended the lower house of parliament approved in the first reading a bill to raise from July 1, 2016 the minimum wage (SMIC), Interfax reports.

The draft law provides for increase in the minimum wage from 1 July 2016 to 20.9%, placing it in the amount of 7.5 thousand. rub. per month.

Currently, the minimum wage is 6 thousand. 204 rubles.

The initiative supported by the government of Russia. “This increase will help to increase the ratio of the minimum wage and the predicted value of the subsistence minimum working age population from 53.5 percent to 64.7 percent,” – said in the conclusion of the government on the bill

The project contributed to the lower house of the March 30 MPs. Sergei Neverov, Vladimir Vasiliev, Olga Batalina and Andrei Isayev, as well as members of the Federation Council Karelov Galina and Valery Ryazan. Batalina noted then that the increase in the minimum wage will affect about 1 million workers, of whom 87% are employed in the state and municipal institutions and 13% – in the private sector

The first deputy head of the Committee on Labor and Social Policy Mikhail Tarasenko. said that the State Duma may consider the bill on Friday, may 13,

Speaking at a meeting of the committee, Tarasenko said that against the backdrop of positive feedback from Governments on the draft law “looks strange materials that appeared today in the press about tightening belts ».

Economic Development May 6 announced the revised draft of the macroeconomic forecast for 2016-2019 years. On Monday, the newspaper “Kommersant” drew attention to the target version of the forecast, according to which for the release of GDP growth of 4.5% in 2019 limiting the growth of wages in the economy was required in 2016-2017 with further compensation in 2018-2019, a reduction of real pensions by 4.8% in 2016 and by 2% in 2017 with further indexing only on inflation until 2019. These measures, according to ministry estimates, “increase the number of poor from 13.1% in 2015 to 13.7% at the end of 2017 with a peak in 2018 at 13.9% and the return of the real incomes of the poor and to that of 2015 year in 2019 “.