Consultation-Analytic Center “TSNOTORGMET”, Moscow, Russia:

Kotlyar B. A., Chief Executive Officer1, e-mail: tsnot@yandex.ru

On the basis of analysis of the data of mining-metallurgical enterprises, this article shows the reasonability of setting of optional standard of minimum wage in sectoral tariff agreement (Agreement). This wage is the institute of both regional labour-market, and metal product market. There was defined the necessity of saving of operating tariffing of workers and works as the stimulus to workers' qualification growth (especially, taking into account the development and application of professional standards). The obligatoriness of reduction of number of low-qualified personnel was substantiated. Wage system should be the institute, providing the dependence of each worker's wage level from the results of both his labour and activity of business units and companies. minimum wage, as the most important part of wage system, should meet the same requirements. In this case, there will be provided the stimulation of decreasing of low-qualified works and decreasing of number of underpaid workplaces with simultaneous obligatory increasing of minimum wage values. Employers' attention was paid on the consequences of saving of considerable part of low-paid workers: increasing of probability of social-labour relationships' destabilization. Optionality of minimum wage standard in the Agreement can be provided by definition of ratio of minimum wage to average wage (Kaitz index) (at the level of 30.0%). At the same time, in the collective agreement of the certain enterprise, minimum wage will be divisible to the cost of living. There were made the conclusions about the necessity of fulfillment of requirements of labour market and metal products market for companies' competitiveness.

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