Law forbidding foreigners to work with their own rights. Those who have not yet exchanged foreign rights for Russian ones will not be able to work

According to federal safety law traffic, from June 1, 2017 throughout the territory Russian Federation, it will be prohibited to work as a driver with a foreign driver's license.

If you open this law and find paragraph 20, then it will say that - To organizations and individual entrepreneurs it will be forbidden to allow a person who does not have the national rights of the Russian Federation to drive a vehicle.

Will it take effect?

This point has already been postponed several times ( according to the editors, it was postponed due to the annexation of Crimea, so that citizens could replace the old rights with new ones without haste). But they won't anymore. Too many problems in Lately on the roads.

And will it work

It could be said that this will not work, employers who are not entirely clean-handed will turn a blind eye to this. That traffic police officers can close their eyes when paying a fine on the spot. Yes, it most likely will. Can't speak for all activities, e.g. fixed-route taxi, but in a traditional taxi it will definitely work.

Why

Everything is simple. There are several large players on the market who will definitely comply with this law - these are Uber, Yandex.Taxi, Gett-taxi and Lucky. These aggregators account for over 95% of all taxi orders. And they will not let those who do not have the national rights of the Russian Federation work.

Without a VU of the established form, you will not be registered in any of these systems. And if you were registered earlier, then you will simply be blocked in the system until you provide all Required documents established pattern.

What does it threaten

We are waiting for endless raids on taxi cars. Everyone will slow down. If you have a Slavic appearance and you have a Russian VU, then in most cases you will be released ( in the first couple of months so for sure - approx. editions). First of all, those who do not have national rights will be identified.

VU replacement procedure

You will have to pass all stages of the exam - theory, playground, city. At the same time, many drivers who decided in advance to get a Russian VU complain that the traffic police inspectors send them to study at a driving school. The law does not say anything about this, but there are already precedents.

Editorial opinion

All responsibility for compliance rests with the employer. This is very good, because the fines will not be 1,000, 5,000 or even 10,000 rubles, but as much as 50,000 rubles. The amount is not small, not every employer can afford it. It's easier not to hire a person who does not have a national license.

However, even now there are organizations that rent a car without any identifying marks that this car is a taxi, under a simple vehicle rental agreement. Thus, they do not hire anyone, but simply receive daily rent. But a license for such a car has been obtained and you can work in a taxi on it.

Surely, schemes for selling accounts will work. What does it mean. An account is registered in the same Uber for a person with a VU of the established sample, and rented out to another (for a certain amount), who has no rights. This is what they are doing now. So to speak, run the scheme in advance.

Do not reassure yourself that they will let you go. Always carry with you a complete set of documents that a taxi driver must have. In addition to the VU - a license, a valid waybill, a driver card, company tariffs, transportation rules, BSO forms. I hope you don’t need to remind you about the first aid kit and fire extinguisher :).

Will the price of a taxi go up?

I strongly doubt it. Unless at first there will be coefficients. As soon as everyone who wants to replace the rights, everything will return to normal.

Extend the exchange period driving licenses issued by other states, the Russian ones were proposed by the chairman of the Duma Committee on Transport Yevgeny Moskvichev and the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Tatyana Moskalkova.

According to the bill they introduced, to work in Russia for road transport foreigners (or citizens who previously lived in the territory of other states) with foreign rights will be able to apply until March 1, 2017. A little less than two years, parliamentarians propose to leave everyone who wants to exchange national driver's "crusts" for Russian ones. However, even before that, they had already had more than three years to do this.

Recall that on June 1, 2015, a ban on work for drivers who do not have Russian-style certificates comes into force in Russia. This decision was made a long time ago. The fact is that migrant workers not only often do not know Russian rights silt of road traffic, but even with the Russian language they are not all right. This was especially clearly seen when - even before the postponement of the entry into force of the relevant amendments to the law - they took exams en masse. At the same time, a rather preferential regime was provided for exchanging the rights of such drivers - only passing a theoretical exam. If on average across the country from 70 to 80 out of 100 candidates for drivers pass the theory the first time, only 30 - 40 percent of the drivers-guest workers passed the theory the first time. The only exceptions were drivers of large transport enterprises, where everything related to safety is set up at the proper level.

However, there are few such enterprises and they do not cover all areas. Therefore, the risk for any of the citizens on the bus driven by a foreign driver who has no idea about the peculiarities of the Russian traffic is quite high. As a result, accidents happen. One of the high-profile cases occurred recently in the Bryansk region. The driver of a minibus with the rights of one of the Central Asian republics drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a truck. As a result, 17 people died.

There is one more problem. Having made an accident, such a driver, if he was not arrested by the court, immediately leaves for his homeland. As a result, it becomes problematic to receive compensation for the loss caused to them.

But according to the deputies, in Crimea, the majority of taxi, bus and truck drivers, as stated in the explanatory note to the bill, have Ukrainian driver license. And although the current legislation provides for a transitional period, Crimeans who want to get a job in another region of Russia will not be able to get a job from June 1.

I must say that for the Crimeans there is a preferential regime for the exchange of rights. But for this they must apply to the traffic police unit in the Crimea. And if they have already moved to another region of Russia, then they are covered general order. But after all, nothing prevents them from returning to Crimea, exchanging rights, and then going to a new place of residence to get a job.

But the deputies found another argument. Citizens of Belarus will also find themselves in a similar situation this summer, deputies predict. And this despite the fact that friendly states have pledged to provide citizens neighboring country equal rights to employment and wages in their territory. As noted in the explanatory note to the document, the proposed date - March 1, 2017 - will provide favorable conditions for carriers and foreign drivers working for them to plan a campaign to exchange driving licenses.

The only question that arises is whether this next postponement will ensure safety on the roads of Russia and Russian passengers? Recall that he is not the first. The rule banning the use of foreign driving licenses in Russia was supposed to come into force in May 2014. Then amendments were adopted to the Federal Law "On Road Safety" and to the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses. However, at the last moment, the entry into force of the changes was postponed until June 1, 2015. Then it was justified by the risk of stopping public transport, if you deprive drivers of the opportunity to work with foreign rights.

Those who have not yet exchanged foreign rights for Russian ones will not be able to work

On June 1, 2017, amendments to the law on road safety came into force, and now drivers with only foreign rights cannot work in Russia. To be a truck driver, transport children on excursions or work in a taxi, foreigners need to get a Russian-style license.

In Russia, Russian rights are needed

If a foreign employee gets behind the wheel of a bus or minibus without Russian rights, the responsible official on the part of the employer will be fined 50 thousand rubles.

What will be fined for, who is at risk and who does not need to change their rights

Why are they so sudden? What is ethnic discrimination? Or are they trying to strangle the business again?

These amendments did not come into force overnight. The law was adopted back in 2013, and then the deadlines were postponed several times so that all foreign drivers could change their rights.

It was impossible to drag it out indefinitely: sooner or later the law would come into force. So he entered on June 1, 2017. This date became known as early as May 23, 2015, when the amendments on the deadline were officially published.

There is no discrimination in this law - this is how they do it all over the world and this is allowed by the Vienna Convention. This is for the safety of passengers and other drivers. Foreign drivers transport children, dangerous goods and taxi passengers. If they do not know the rules of the road, they put other people's lives and property at risk.

And if they know, then most likely they have already received or will soon receive Russian rights without any problems.

And if a foreigner does not work in a taxi and not as a driver, but he has a car? Will the employer still be fined?

No. Only those employers who have employees without Russian rights working in positions directly related to driving will be fined. For example, a transport company will be fined for a truck driver without a Russian license. And if the watchman or seller has only foreign rights and is not required to use a car at work, but drives it in his personal time, then the employer will not be fined.

If you draw up not an employment contract with the driver, but a civil law contract, will this help to avoid a fine?

Will not help. Labor activity foreign citizen- this is work under an employment or civil law contract. What the contract is called is irrelevant.

What if an employee drives a car for personal purposes?

If the foreign rights do not meet the requirements and there is no international law, the driver can be fined five or fifteen thousand rubles, even if he uses the car for personal purposes. It is believed that he did not care at all about the compliance of documents with the laws of the country in which he lives and works, and it seems that he drives without a license.

In this case, the employer is not in danger.

So here's the way out! You can simply say that the driver is driving on a personal matter, and not on the instructions of the employer. Even if he carries passengers - it's like his initiative.

That won't work. To carry passengers, baggage or cargo on passenger car, bus, minibus or truck, you need a waybill. If there is no waybill, this is a violation, for which they are fined separately. The traffic police officer can easily figure out how everything really is.

We have foreign drivers. How to arrange everything correctly?

Write down in the contract or job description the obligation of the driver to present the rights before leaving for the flight. By default, it is not required to do so. But if it turns out that he was deprived of his rights even after hours, the employer may be fined.

Make changes to existing contracts.

Establish an official who is responsible for allowing drivers to work. Brief employees on changes in laws. Remind that the fine is issued not to the company, but to the official.

Keep track of who works for you and how everything is framed. If there are claims, documents will be required first of all.

Delaying the payment of taxes is no longer profitable. The penalty is calculated according to the new rules

When a pharmacy sells a prescription drug that is valid for a year, the pharmacist must note when and how much the drug was sold. And the prescription is returned. The next time, this prescription will be sold again in the right amount of the medicine: past sales will be taken into account and again put a mark.

When the prescription expires, you will no longer be able to buy the medicine with it. If the prescription is to be kept, the pharmacy will collect it. If you don’t need to store it, they will give it away, but you still won’t be able to use it.

What are the rules for the sale of vaccines?

The vaccine for vaccination will be sold only if the buyer has a thermal container. It is impossible to deliver it to the clinic in an ordinary bag: the vaccine will deteriorate and the vaccine will be useless.

You can buy a container directly at the pharmacy. This additional expenses which you need to consider: you will have to pay extra or go with your own. You cannot buy a vaccine in advance. You can store such drugs for a maximum of two days. If you are going to vaccinate your child with a paid vaccine, consider these restrictions.

By the way, you can’t buy a vaccine without a prescription either. You will first have to take a prescription from a doctor, then buy a drug on it and within 48 hours get back to the clinic - already for vaccination.

Sometimes it’s easier to sign up for a paid clinic: they will conduct an examination there, give a referral and do all the procedures at once. Or agree to a free vaccination with a cheap vaccine from the state.

From June 1, 2015, employment by drivers holding foreign driving licenses will be prohibited. To continue working, you need to exchange your driver's license for a Russian one.

However, it will be possible to use foreign rights to drive a private car after June 1, 2015. The traffic police spoke about the validity of foreign driver's licenses in Russia, as well as the procedure for exchanging them for Russian ones, in the information message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia dated April 13, 2015 "The traffic police clarified questions that citizens have about foreign driver's licenses."

In particular, traffic police specialists explained to citizens that, both now and in the future, throughout the territory of the Russian Federation, vehicles persons are allowed on the basis of Russian national driving licenses, and in the absence of such - on the basis of foreign national or international driving licenses. At the same time, citizens with foreign rights are allowed to drive vehicles, subject to the provisions, using the new version of Article 41 of the Vienna Convention, which regulates that all foreign national driver's licenses, the validity period of which is not specified, are recognized as complying with the requirements of international treaties of the Russian Federation. If the country to which the driving license is issued is not a party to the Vienna Convention, then such a national driving license can also be recognized as valid for driving vehicles in Russia, provided that Russian driving licenses are recognized as valid on the territory of this country. A driver's license issued in such a country must be presented along with a duly certified translation into Russian. Such a translation is not required if all entries in foreign rights are made or duplicated in letters that coincide in spelling with the letters of the Latin or Russian alphabet.

With regard to the restrictions introduced from June 1, 2015, they relate to a ban on driving vehicles on the basis of foreign national or international driving licenses in the course of entrepreneurial and labor activities that are directly related to driving vehicles. Such rights must be exchanged for Russian ones in the manner prescribed by the provisions of the Rules for conducting examinations for the right to drive vehicles and issuing driver's licenses approved by the "About admission to driving vehicles". The procedure for determining categories in rights when passing exams is determined additionally. For residents of the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol, there are special rules for exchanging driver's licenses.