Whether will we live to pension, the Lord businessmen?.

Article has been published in a weekly journal «2000» № 23 (24) on July, 9-15th 2000 year

By results of poll spent by Federation of trade unions of workers of cooperation and other forms of  enterprise in seven large markets of Kiev, 93 % interrogated have answered that they need acknowledgement of the seniority.

In Ukraine is about one million subjects of the enterprise activity which does not have the status of the legal person. How much  people are excited with a question: where should there is their work record card and whether the years given to business are enlisted in the seniority?.

It appears, very many businessmen at all have no representation about the mechanism of "mortgaging" of own pension. One of them think that as work on the patent also the experience goes. Others — that time pays taxes, with the Pension fund there will be no problems. And the most naive continue to hope for the state...

And how actually? Yes, to the Pension fund there are deductions from all tax bearers. But only the personal account confirming who when and how many there has given, — is absent. In it and all problem.

At us meanwhile all remains how was at a socialism. To the general copper suppose according to the employment records confirming the seniority though the sum of deductions isn't so important. And there is no record — that excuse...

Under the pressure of public organizations the law which has added article 24 of the Code of laws on work by position about a procedure for registration in a placement service of labor contracts of hired workers of private businessmen — physical persons on December, 24th, 1999 has been passed. Article 48 enters position that work record cards of hired workers are filled with directly employers.

But here their own work record cards lie at home. As explain in the social policy and work Ministry when the businessman works independently, no labor relations arise. To That its seniority also isn't fixed.

And it in spite of the fact that the businessman creates the real blessings for a society, labor places, pays taxes. Besides it is registered as the subject of business and in the state administration in a residence, and in tax inspection, and in the Pension fund. But any of the listed instances doesn't wish to be engaged in its work record card.

So, it has no social protection. It equally concerns payments both under the sick-list, and in case of a maternity leave, and at a retirement. The problem has arisen not today and not yesterday. It exists already throughout several years.

The Law accepted in February, 1991 «About enterprise in Ukraine», having given to the private initiative, hasn't provided any social protection for private businessmen, having defined only that they carry on business at own risk.

Neither in the Code of laws on work, nor in the instruction about an order of conducting work record cards, in position about the Pension fund till now words it is not told about how to be with work record cards of businessmen.

Meanwhile, according to Law article 62 «About provision of pensions», the seniority granting the right to reception of pension, is defined on records in it. And if records aren't present, on the basis of special inquiries with instructions of those concrete months when deductions were brought in the Pension fund.

But also here not all is simple. The matter is that the sums of deductions of the given fund from the moment of its formation in 1993 changed already three times. Last time — in August, 1998 from businessmen — physical persons have demanded to pay 32 % from the taxation sum. So, it is possible to consider, the experience of work since 1991 untill 1998 actually was gone!

The problem dares two ways. Or it is necessary to oblige the same tax to conduct work record cards of private businessmen, having allocated for these purposes money from the budget. Or to delegate powers to trade unions which also can carry out it on self-support principles, for a certain payment.

Natalia Kozhevina heading Federation of trade unions of workers of cooperation and other forms of business, and also Association of assistance to development of private business «Ednannya» adheres to such opinion:

— We have already begun such experiment within the limits of federation: that the enterprises and businessmen, deducting certain percent from a wages fund, had the right to personification of the means, including from the Pension fund.

That is that arriving money was address and the person had possibility them to dispose at own discretion.

Our federation perceive more likely as trade union of "market experts". They are the most unprotected layer of the Ukrainian society for today. And the basic social guarantee for them, certainly, is the right to pension.

 

Olesya Ignatenko