Length of the work week
A Russian tycoon Mikhail Prohorov as the chairman of the Russian union of industrialists and entrepreneurs’ committee on Labour Market suggested a bill, which should change the Russian Labour Code.
One of the most interesting novels is the length of the work week. Right now the Labour Code establishes this length as 40 working hours. The Committee headed by Prohorov suggested prolonging the work week up to 60 working hours. But for this prolonging an employer should ask an employee permission and the last one should agree with such change in his labour contract.
The Committee supposes that the present system of the labour law is aimed at a conservation of the old system of employment, which, undoubtedly, is out of date and constrains the development of the Russian labour market. They think that this novel would help to modernize the Russian labour market and to increase a productivity of labour.