Legislative acts of the Russian Federation provide for several varieties of work experience - general, continuous and special. The total calculation of a person’s working time is made to determine the amount of pension payments by age, as well as upon the onset of disability or in cases of loss of the breadwinner.
The total length of service includes those periods when a person worked at an enterprise or organization under a contract of employment. Work time on the collective farm or other cooperative farms is also counted. In general, any work activity during the performance of which a citizen was subject to social state insurance is included in the general experience. In addition, the periods accepted for calculating the old-age pension include:
- service in the protection of a paramilitary type, in special communications agencies or in units of mountain rescuers;
- activities as an individual entrepreneur;
- military service in the RF Armed Forces;
- the time of study in schools, higher and secondary special state institutions, etc.
The special experience takes into account the periods of a certain labor activity related to its special characteristics. This can be work in the Far North or in the presence of harmful factors that adversely affect human health.
Continuous work experience has its own distinguishing features. This is an independent category for assessing the duration of useful activities of an employee. It characterizes not a common period of labor time, but a specific one. A certain period of time during which a person has not found a job after being fired from a previous place is not included in continuous work experience. According to the period established by legislative acts, no more than one month is allotted for the search for a new place of work. Otherwise, the work experience is interrupted. Legislative acts also provide for other cases when there is a failure to preserve the continuity of working time. This is a kind of punishment that a person receives for the unscrupulous performance of his duties. There is no continuous work experience in the case when a person quit his previous job due to disciplinary action, loss of trust, etc.
Legislative acts enshrined provisions that allow taking into account those periods of a person’s life when he did not have a contract of employment. So, in continuous work experience is counted:
- service in the ranks of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation or in the bodies of the FSB of the Russian Federation, if the time period until the day of admission to further work or study has not exceeded three months;
- Duration of study at colleges, refresher courses, etc.
Continuous work experience gives a person certain guarantees. Normative legal acts enshrined the right of the worker to receive additional benefits, which he acquires in the event that the time of his activity without significant intervals has reached a certain value:
1. Such workers are preferred when reducing the number of staff of the enterprise.
2. The collective agreement may provide for an additional cash bonus based on the results of the year for employees with long working experience in this organization.
3. All employees of business entities located in the Far North and territories equated to it receive certain wage increases , the amount of which increases with increasing continuous experience, etc.
All measures to encourage long-term labor relations are designed to increase the stability and stability of the enterprise labor force. These costs, in the end, contribute to the high-quality implementation of the duties assigned to the staff and motivate the desire to improve the qualification level.