Health care workers caring for coronavirus patients will receive double their payouts for work on New Year’s Eve in January. About this citing the Minister of Health of Russia Mikhail Murashko reports TASS .
The head of the department noted that almost 700 thousand doctors received social payments for the fight against COVID-19 last month. “Special social payments for December 2020 were received by 696,884 medical workers providing assistance to patients with COVID-19. Payments were made in full, their volume amounted to more than 21 billion rubles,” Murashko specified.
In December it was reported that the President of Russia Vladimir Putin supported the proposal ” United Russia ” to make payments to doctors fighting coronavirus on New Year’s holidays in double the amount. The Russian leader drew attention to the fact that work on holidays is paid double the amount, but the Labor Code does not specify a requirement for a similar increase in payments for doctors who are fighting the coronavirus.