Standard Rules of Internal Labor Organization. January 18, 1941

Excerpts

Original Source: Sistematicheskoe sobranie deistvuiushchikh zakonov Soiuza sovetskikh sotsialisticheskikh respublik (Moscow, 1941), text 63.

... 19. Every violation of labor discipline shall entail either a disciplinary penalty or prosecution in court.

20. The following disciplinary penalties shall be imposed for violation of labor discipline:
    (a) Admonition;
    (b) Reprimand;
    (c) Severe reprimand;
    (d) Transfer to other lower paid work for a period of up to three months, and demotion to a lower post.

21. A salaried or wage earning employee who comes late to work without a justifiable reason, goes out for lunch ahead of time, is late in returning from lunch, leaves work in an establishment (office) ahead of time, or loiters on the job during working hours, shall be penalized by the administration by the following means: admonition, reprimand, severe reprimand, transfer to lower paid work for a period of up to three months, or demotion to a lower post.

22. A penalty shall be imposed by the administration of the establishment (office) as soon as it becomes aware of the violation.

Before the penalty is imposed, the violator of labor discipline shall be requested to give an explanation.

No penalty may be imposed by the administration of the establishment (office) after the expiration of one month from the date on which the violation is ascertained.

23. Each penalty shall be cited in a general order and communicated to the salaried or wage earning employee, who must sign the receipt of communication.

24. If, within one year from the date of imposition of the penalty of admonition, reprimand, or severe reprimand, the salaried employee or wage earner does not commit another violation of labor discipline, the director of the establishment (head of the office) shall remove the penalty.

If the salaried or wage earning employee has not committed another violation of labor discipline and has in addition proved himself a good and conscientious worker, the director of the establishment (head of the office) may remove the penalty imposed by him before the expiration of one year.

25. A salaried or wage earning employee who leaves the establishment (office) without permission shall be prosecuted in court under the Edict of the Presidium of June 26, 1940.2

26. For absenteeism without a justifiable reason, salaried and wage earning employees shall be prosecuted in court under the Edict of the Presidium of June 26, 1940.3

One who is late to work or from lunch, who leaves work before working hours are over, or who leaves before lunch time, shall be considered an absentee, provided such violation of labor discipline causes the loss of more than twenty minutes of working time.

The above-mentioned violations causing the loss of less than twenty minutes of working time shall be considered equal to absenteeism if they occur thrice within one month or four times within two consecutive months.

Likewise, a salaried or wage earning employee who appears to work in a state of intoxication shall be considered an absentee.

Sovnarkom USSR

USSR Laws, 041, text 63.

Source: Vladimir Gsovski, Soviet Civil Law (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Law School, 1948), Vol. I, pp. 539-542.