According to the information provided by Internet resources, have a fairly large number of employers (28%) in 2012, plans to have the possibility of a procedure such as the indexation of staff salaries.
process of depreciation of money leads to a loss of purchasing power.As a result of the presence of the same amount is acquired less goods and services.Therefore, in every civilized country, this process is controlled by the established state guarantees in the sphere of wages of working citizens.Such a guarantee is the indexation of wages, including the measures to improve its real content.It must be carried out exclusively by the employer, on the basis of existing legal norms and financial condition.
other guarantees indexing wages available in the form of the minimum wage (the minimum wage), set by the state.Employers are prohibited to set the salary that would have been below that level.If you find the company employees with wages below the minimum wage to the head of the enterprise will have to pay a fine, and yet raise wages to a minimum.Monitoring compliance with the law and the involvement of the employer to the liability labor inspectors.
wage indexation implies its increase for all employees of the company, so you should apply the ratio increases to their base salaries.Attention should be paid to the correct registration of the increase in wages and taken into account when calculating future benefits.This is precisely the difference between a simple indexing of wage increases, which produces an increase in the salary (wage rate) of individual employees.
Another example of a simple increase - a selective increase in the salary of employees of individual departments on various factors.
employer is obliged to index.According to experts and arbitrators Rostrud Constitutional Court of the Russian wage indexation is the responsibility of the employer.This is the essence of the concept of "state guarantee": the employer - a person acting in favor of the employee, and it can not under any circumstances take the decision to change or cancellation of the guarantees claimed by the state.
However, lawmakers did not include certain points of the mechanism of realization of the guarantees, such as the procedure and conditions for its implementation.
Labour Code on the procedure of indexation
According to the Labour Code carried out indexation of wages in the budgetary organizations in the order, which is set by the current labor regulatory acts.However, at the moment the order of indexation of wages not described in any legal act relating to labor law.Therefore, it is not clear what laws should focus on the question of the employer indexing.
in budget organizations indexing is conducted based on the relevant order issued by the Government of the Russian Federation.
in commercial organizations - on the basis of their own regulations.In practice, as is well known, the index of wages exists only in the collective agreements of companies that have joined the industry agreements.For small businesses, if suddenly it is mentioned in the contract, it is usually combined with the prerequisite of a the employer financial capacity to implement it.
For such cases, there is a letter Rostrud in which experts of the organization recommended changes to the documents of the organization, if they do not describe how the indexing.
