COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT Lector: Associated professor The DEPARTMENT of social communications NR TPU Rustem Nazmetdinov

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT definition COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT is a collective act regulating social, labor and employment relations in an organisation or with an individual entrepreneur and concluded by employees and the employer by the persons representing them.

Contents and Structure of a Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT The contents and structure of a collective bargaining agreement are determined by the parties. The collective agreement may incorporate employees' and employer's obligations relating to the following issues: the forms, systems and rates of remuneration for labour;

Contents and Structure of a Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT the disbursement of benefits and compensations; the mechanism of regulation of remuneration for labour with account taken of price growth, inflation level and of the achievement of the targets set by the collective agreement;

Contents and Structure of a Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT employment, re-training and the terms for dismissing employees; working hours and leisure hours, including issues concerning the granting of leave and the duration thereof;

Contents and Structure of a Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT the observance of employees' interests in the privatisation of state and municipal property; environmental safety and the protection of employees' health at work;

Contents and Structure of a Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT guarantees and privileges for employees who combine their work with studies; the health rehabilitation and leisure of employees and their family members; partial or full payment for employees' meals;

Contents and Structure of a Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT the monitoring of implementation of the collective agreement, the procedure for amending it, parties' liabilities, the ensuring of normal conditions for the activities of employees' representatives, the procedure for informing the employees of the implementation of the collective agreement;

Contents and Structure of a Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT an obligation to refrain from industrial action if the relevant terms and conditions of the collective agreement are observed; other issued defined by the parties.

Application of the Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT The collective bargaining agreement shall be concluded for a term of not more than three years and shall enter into force from the day of its signing by the parties or from the day specified in the collective bargaining agreement . The parties may prolong the collective bargaining agreement for not more than three years.

Application of the Collective BARGAINING AGREEMENT The collective bargaining agreement shall be concluded for a term of not more than three years and shall enter into force from the day of its signing by the parties or from the day specified in the collective bargaining agreement . The parties may prolong the collective bargaining agreement for not more than three years.

The Notion of Working Time. The Standard Length of the Working Time Working time is the time when the employee must fulfil labour duties in compliance with internal labour rules and the terms of the labour contract, as well as other periods of time classed as working time in compliance with the present Code, other federal laws and other normative legal acts of the Russian Federation. The standard length of the working time may not be greater than 40 hours per week.

Reduced Length of the Working Time Reduced working hours shall be established: for employees aged below 16: up to 24 hours a week; for employees aged from 16 to 18: up to 35 hours a week; for employees who are disabled, Disability Groups I or II: up to 35 hours a week;

Reduced Length of the Working Time for employees working in harmful and/or hazardous working conditions: up to 36 hours a week in the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation with account taken of the opinion of the Russian Trilateral Commission for Regulating SocialLabour Relations

Part-Time Work An incomplete working day (shift) or incomplete working week may be fixed by agreement between the employee and the employer at hiring or later. The employer shall be to set an incomplete working day (shift) or incomplete working week at the request of

Part-Time Work an expectant mother, one of the parents (trustee) with a child up to fourteen years of age (invalid child up to eighteen years of age), as well as a person taking care of a sick member of the family as specified in the medical statement issued in the procedure established by federal laws and other normative legal acts of the Russian Federation.