OVERTIME PAY IN THE USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00046R000300050004-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 3, 2013
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: November 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Overtime Pay in the USSR
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DATE DISTR. 27 I.e. 1953,
NO. OF PAGES '2
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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Andesite Store Quarry in
er industrial installations in Mukachevo,
e workers were paid overtime as follows:
a. For the first hour of overtime,, double rate;
b. For the second hour of overtime, 21 rate;
c. For additional hours 'an even higher rate with which I am not
familiar,
2. Overtime work could be ordered only when there was an authorization for
it by the responsible ministry. Usually this authorization was requested
in advance for the coming production year. Then the heads of enterprises
were authorized to order.overtime work within the limits allowed for
their enterprises. However, it ,took quite 'a bit of Justification to get
any kind of authorization for ovartima 7rk. The Andesite Stone Quarry
50X1 in Kirov q, never could obtain such
50X1 amthorizati . the Mukacheyo Brewery always had
some authorized overtime work for the brewers.
3. Personnel employed on a monthly salary basis were not compensated for
overtime work. They were supposed to perform their duties during
regular working hours, and if they were unable to do.so, they had tp
work overtime but were not paid for th i
or production) which could not
have been foreseen at the time when the annual production plan was
made. It required quite a bit of explanation to get 'auth'orization for
overtime to Insure the fulfillment of the production plan if nothing
had happened to hamper its realization, or if it was. only to eliminate
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t
e work.
Workers employed on an hourly wage rate were compensated for overtime
in the way I have stated in [Iaragraph.g3 the same applied 'to those
employed at piece rates.
Normally overtime was scheduled to eliminate results of difficulties
(e.g., accidents or new items mrdered f
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bottlenecks created under normal conditions. This would not be
authorized and would make the enterprisers director responsible for
the production failure.
When overtime was justified and authorized, not more than one or two
hours were added to the work day. Sunday work was performed very
rarely, and it was compensated for.at a straight double rate.
If workers worked extra hours at the end of the work day or on Sundays
to compensate for lay-offs during the regular. working time, this work
was paid for at the overtime rates. The reason for this was that
workers were not responsible for the lay-off and, therefore, had to be
paid overtime rates.
In general, because of high rates paid, the Soviet workers liked to
work overtime very much.
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