Unofficial employment in Russia is very popular today. There are several reasons for this.
Is the chief to blame?
The main reason is that the employer must pay for each employed person contributions to various funds: pension, social insurance, medical insurance. This entails significant costs, because deductions are made from profits. In small and medium enterprises, such expenses with small assets make the business unprofitable.
All owner contributions are aimed at social protection of employees:
- accrual of pensions;
- indemnification upon receipt industrial injuries and occupational diseases;
- health insurance.
There are no deductions for informal employment. Does this mean that with this approach, the social protection of people is practically zero?
Cons of work without formalization
A member of a work collective who has suddenly caught a cold cannot stay at home and, having called a doctor, arrange a sick leave. Treatment at home will be carried out only with the oral consent of the employer and, as a rule, only on the condition that the poor man who is not lucky will agree on the performance of his duties by colleagues.
Unofficial employment makes maternity leave impossible. Therefore, a pregnant woman, going on maternity leave, is forced to say goodbye to the post. Lack of pension accruals can lead to complete social insecurity of lonely old people.
Want to get paid every day?
A good option for employment is work with a daily payment. For example, posting announcements and distributing leaflets, transporting goods or cleaning premises. Such work attracts applicants with a flexible schedule and the ability to refuse at any time if something does not suit.
Working with daily pay will be interesting to students who earn extra money both before classes at the university and after them. A flexible schedule can also attract shift workers. In their free time, they will replenish their budget.
Employment with a flexible schedule will interest drivers of their own cars, who can become taxi drivers, as well as get a courier service, deliver correspondence and goods.
Almost everyone is fit for such a job. Unofficially, full-time students, women on maternity leave, school graduates, and people without education can work. That is, everyone who has such a desire.
The advantages of working without registration
Informal employment has its positive aspects. The absence of additional costs allows employers to pay people a higher salary. Employees have the opportunity to make savings and invest their funds. A good passive income inspires more hope for a decent old age than state pension. This also applies to medical care, which has long been no longer completely free in our country.
So who is this job for? Informal employment is for people who value freedom. The ability to leave the annoying boss at any time, change your place of residence, quickly move to a higher paid position in another organization.
Informal employment is relevant for young people. Newly-made specialists, as a rule, do not have health problems, a pension will come only after many years, and it seems to them that they are also very far from maternity leave.
Such work will allow you to test your skills, gain experience and clearly assess your financial prospects in a particular profession. If they turn out to be sad, it is not too late to change the sphere of activity.
A flexible schedule may be of interest to more experienced professionals who already have an official place of work, leaving enough free time.
But how is it abroad?
Unofficial employment abroad is very attractive for our citizens and extremely problematic. An employer who violates the law faces a fine, and a foreigner faces deportation or even imprisonment.
Settled best as a staff. Many restaurants and hotels require waiters, dishwashers, maids and cleaning staff. Most often, such a vacancy is found through friends who already have similar experience.
You can work as long as the visa expires, and if you take a chance, then after that. It is important to go unnoticed by local law enforcement agencies: to smoke in specially designated places, not to quarrel with neighbors, to lead a sober lifestyle. Every day, our citizens transfer thousands of euros to their relatives who remain at home. And the stream of those wishing to go abroad does not become smaller.
Those who intend to seek work outside their home country are often advised to contact special firms licensed by intermediaries. Such organizations help to get settled only officially. Programmers, artists, sellers, nannies, housekeepers - all of them can work abroad on a work visa.
Especially popular is the profession of a sailor, as well as a ship's doctor and ship's cook. Positions remotely related to travel, such as bartenders and waiters on cruise liners, are also needed abroad.
