Belarusian MPs pass amendments to laws on social standards, minimal salaries
MINSK, 16 December (BelTA) – The House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus has given the first reading to the bill on amending the laws on social standards and minimal salaries, BelTA has learned.
The Council of Ministers forwarded the bill to the lower chamber of the Belarusian parliament on 1 October 2020. According to Oleg Semenchuk, Deputy Chairman of the Labor and Social Affairs Commission of the House of Representatives, the bill was put together in order to transition to the unified social standard (criterion) in the course of implementing the state policy on regulating living standards and in the course of implementing social security measures.