Labor Booklets

Council of People's Commissars, Labor Booklets. December 20, 1938

Original Source: Izvestiia, 21 December 1938. Sistematicheskoe sobranie deistvuiushchikh zakonov Soiuza sovetskikh sotsialisticheskikh respublik (Moscow, 1938), text 329.

With the object of regulating the registration of workers and employees in concerns and institutions, the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR decrees:

  1. To introduce as from January 15, 1939, for workers and employees in all State and cooperative concerns and institutions Labor Booklets, issued by the administrative board of the concern (institution).

  2. Labor booklets to contain the following data concerning the owner of the Labor booklet: surname, name and patronymic, age, education, profession, and information concerning his work and movements from one concern (institution) to another, the causes of such transfers, and also of encouragements and rewards received ...

  3. Labor booklets must be kept for all workers and employees working in a concern (institution) for more than 5 days, including seasonal and temporary workers.

  4. The Labor booklet is kept by the management of the concern (institution), and is returned to the worker or employee on his dismissal.

  5. The Labor booklets are filled in by the management of the concerns and institutions in conformity with the following regulations:

(a) Year of birth, and middle or higher education, are registered only on the strength of documentary evidence...

(f) On dismissal, all data concerning work, commendations and rewards entered during the period of employment in the concern (institution) are certified by the signature of the manager (or a specially delegated official) and the seal of the concern (institution) ...

  1. Illegal use of Labor booklets, their transference to other persons, forgery and tampering with them are punishable under the Criminal Code ...

  2. The Decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, September 21, 1926, "On Labor Registers" (Code of Laws of the USSR, 1926, No. 66, Art. 502; 1929, No. 35, Art. 315) is annulled.

President of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR.
V. Molotov

Director of Affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR
I. Bolshakov

Source: "Soviet Legislation," The Slavonic (and East European) Review, Vol. XVII, No. 51 (April, 1939), pp. 697-699.

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