Chapter XVI: Appendix: To Section 79

RULES CONCERNING UNEMPLOYED AND PAYMENT OF \

SUBSIDIES

1. An “unemployed” shall mean every citizen of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic subject to labor duty who is registered with the Local Department of Labor Distribution as being out of work at his vocation or at the remuneration fixed by the proper tariff.

2. An “unemployed” shall likewise mean:

(_a_) Any person who has obtained employment for a term not
exceeding two weeks (Section 25 of the present Code);

(_b_) Any person who is temporarily employed outside his vocation,
until he shall obtain work at his vocation (Sections 29 and 30 of
the present Code).

3. The rights of unemployed shall not be extended—

(_a_) To persons who in violation of Sections 2, 24 and 29 of the
present Code, have evaded the labor duty, and refused work offered
to them;

(_b_) To persons not registered as unemployed with the Local
Department of Labor Distribution (Section 21 of the present Code);

(_c_) To persons who have wilfully quit work, for the term
specified in Section 54 of the present Code.

4. All persons described in Section 1 and subdivision “_b_” of Section 2 of these rules shall be entitled to permanent employment (for a term exceeding two weeks) at their vocations in the order of priority determined by the list of the Department of Labor Distribution for each vocation.

5. Persons described in Section 1 and subdivision “_b_” of Article 2 of these rules shall be entitled to a subsidy from the local fund for unemployed.

6. The subsidy to unemployed provided in Section 1 of the present rules shall be equal to the remuneration fixed by the tariff for the group and category on which the wage earner was assigned by the valuation commission (Section 61.)

_Note._ In exceptional cases the People’s Commissariat of Labor may reduce the unemployed subsidy to the minimum of living expenses as determined for the district in question.

7. A wage earner employed temporarily outside of his vocation (Subdivision “_b_” of Section 2) shall receive a subsidy equal to the differences between the remuneration fixed for the group and category in which he is enrolled and his actual remuneration, in case the latter be less than the former.

8. An unemployed who desires to avail himself of his right to a subsidy shall apply to the local funds for unemployed and shall present the following documents: (_a_) his registration card from the Local Department of Labor Distribution; and (_b_) a certificate of the valuation commission showing his assignment to a definite group and category of wage earners.

9. Before paying the subsidy the local funds for unemployed shall ascertain, through the Department of Labor Distribution and the respective trade union, the extent of applicant’s unemployment and the causes thereof, as well as the group and category to which he belongs.

10. The local funds for unemployed may for good reasons, be denied the applicant.

11. If an application is denied, the local fund for unemployed shall inform the applicant thereof within three days.

12. The decision of the local fund for unemployed may within two weeks, be appealed from by the interested parties to the Local Department of Labor, and the decision of the latter may be appealed from to the District Department of Labor. The decision of the District Department of Labor is final and subject to no further appeal.

13. The payment of the subsidy to an unemployed shall commence only after he has actually been laid off and not later than by the fifth day.

14. The subsidies shall be paid from: the fund of insurance for the unemployed.

15. The fund of unemployment insurance shall be made up,

(_a_) from obligatory payments by all enterprises, establishments
and institutions employing paid labor;

(_b_) from fines imposed for default in such payments;

(_c_) from casual payments.

16. The amount and the manner of collection of the payments and fines mentioned in Section 15 of these rules shall be determined every year by a special order of the People’s Commissariat of Labor.