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In the west is gaining increasing popularity of the phenomenon of sabbatical - a one-year (creative) leave, but in reality - a complete distraction from work for longer than the standard holiday period? ASU whether such a practice in Russia? And whether or not Russia's officer did not forget about the affairs of the workers?
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Term Work Balance life became current labor collectives as well as the phrase "healthy eating" among those who watch their weight. And what is the "weight", for example, a currently fashionable word sabbatical, which in translation means the exact year (creative) holiday, but in reality - a complete distraction from work for longer than the standard holiday period? And whether or not Russia's officer did not forget about the affairs of the workers?paphos and kamares cyprus resales villas also |

Fairy tale or Fact?

You say, this could only dream about? For the British journalists are not fantasy. Guardian Media Group every four years, provides employees with the additional and paid a month's leave. John Lewis Partnership also offers its partners a 25-year veteran a break from work without worrying about the compensation within six months. Somewhere in the middle turned out to Royal College of Nursing, who considers it possible to release a professorship in 2-month sabbatical - attention! - Every five years after six years of work experience. It seems to colleagues from Russia remains only envy.

The fact ASU whether sabbatichesky leave native soil, spores carried out exactly what time this term exists in the pages of Russian text-books on management. Ten years. Traditionally, new-fashioned way officially rest in every way contributes to the subsequent generation of business ideas and simply fruitful work. Opponents also say that in a rapidly changing human resource market, with its war for talent, Russia workaholics afford such a vacation can not be healed. Among them are Anna Antonovskaya, Project Manager, People Solutions. She is sure: if the top manager or a specialist after an ordinary long-delayed rest decided not to return to their former place of work, and will look for a new place, then the potential employer a summary will be the least preferred. And the reason for this is lack of fresh experience. If 3-4 months - is not terrible, the "classic" sabbatical for a year can do a disservice. Need to rest in a measure, say spiteful critics.

Vadim Lysenkov, co-founder of "Corvette trading" and "Cover LITE", dealing with LEDs, the measure seems to know. His life outside the routine matters - is, for example, three or four weeks of fishing in Goa, whence he returned in mid-February. One of the slogans Vadim - "works well those who have a good rest." Hard to disagree, especially when it comes to quality and sometimes exotic holidays. During one such trip to Singapore in 2000, he met his future wife - there touring ballerina Maya Zubchinskoy. Joint life with a creative man pushed the graduate faculty of applied mathematics and a shareholder of technical business, far from the bohemian sticks to the idea that the rest can and should be creative, radically changing the type of activity. This does not necessarily go to the Amazon jungle and, like some, forget about his company for months, leaving the mobile phone at the airport.

It all started with the fact that Vadim wanted to independently organize and co-produce a film about dancing wife. This idea resulted in 9 movies filmed in Singapore. The sense of novelty, for a new creative path of so much that Lysenkova wanted to leave in a much more "lengthy" sabbatical comparable to leap into a creative abyss, - organize Dance Theater, which is headed and where to perform the main role of his wife. Thus arose the Dance Theater, fire and light "Domino", whose repertoire - from the waltz to samba with fire and pyrotechnic props and up to the club GO-GO show with animation. By the way, handy LED development of core business. "After seven years begin to feel home-grown expert in the field of theater and dance - recognized Lysenko. - It is encouraging that the project also supports himself, brings a livelihood. Here is such a leave from the major cases.

According to Vadim, for the small shareholder, Russia's companies, a necessary and sufficient condition for the possibility to leave the business for several months, is the presence in the company's executive management team, which he trusts. This condition - a consequence of the need to give top managers of absolute authority. Otherwise, in a tour - and Vadim goes to the theater, completely leaving the core business - the phone in the airport not throw. "In fact, such prolonged holiday and business are a good idea, because such leave may be viewed as a rehearsal for withdrawal from the affairs of old age - sure Lysenkov - that companies established in the 90th years of thirty people, it becomes more and more urgent" .

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With far more willing employers are going to leave an assignment, when the essence of a long vacation is not something careless, but quite pragmatic - studies. You look, and will return to you PhD or master of business administration. International SAP company describes itself as an employer with a very careful approach to each situation. "After all, our main value - it is talented people, they create a sustainable competitive advantage - assures Shlomit Gruman-Navot, director of SAP staff in Russia and CIS. - And we fully encourage the creative development of our employees. That's just one example: one of our consultants took leave for a year to go to study in England and an MBA. However, the company retains his job. We are waiting for him back this autumn with new knowledge and new ideas! "

In the pharmaceutical company Pfizer say: from the basic work sometimes need to rest. But it's better for the benefit of the case. "In an effort to keep our team and knowing that sometimes the employee takes more than a regular vacation, we have developed a program Pfizer Fellowship, - says Sophia Kadykova, HR-director of Russia's representative company Pfizer. - It is open to all staff from every office around the world who have worked in the company of at least 5 years.

The program usually lasts from 3 months to a year, and its essence lies in the fact that during this time employee of the company is directly involved in various charitable projects carried out, usually on the initiative and under the patronage of government agencies. This is a program of assistance to developing countries in Africa and Asia, support for prisoners in the fight against serious diseases.

The value and uniqueness of the Pfizer Fellowship program is that, on the one hand, employees have the opportunity to pause, a cardinal change of activity, while not losing jobs - at the end of the program, he returned to the company to the same or similar position. "On the other hand, a person can realize a natural desire to provide assistance to those who need it. For each of us laid down such qualities as kindness, empathy, sympathy, - adds Kadykova. However, under the influence of the environment - intensive work, high employment, the rapid pace of life - we can not perform good deeds, to the extent and level to which we are capable of - even when we want it with all my heart. " This is an excellent opportunity to embody the good impulses of the soul in concrete assistance - and personally see the results of their good deeds. In addition, the project helps employees from different countries to work together and forge lasting friendships contacts, which will certainly be useful in further work - no doubt in the company. Perhaps for such pragmatic leave the future?

In the meantime, companies face a harsh reality: the employee for any reason must leave the workplace for many months. And employers are willing to go to the meeting. "Under the new year, I persuaded an assistant director general to leave in the" creative "leave for a few months to resolve their personal problems, - says Vadim Lysenko. - We were ready to temporarily her someone to replace, only that it is then returned. The girl, however, did not use the employer's offer and, as originally and was going to have resigned for family reasons. But our companion in every way emphasizes that he is ready to go towards his subordinates. Fortunately most familiar is the need to rest "in full" and not simply ignore for a week or two. In general, the potential long-term leave their staff Lysenkov reasons as follows: "Even if the person asking you about three months' respite," disingenuous and after a time will not come back, it still often appears that a good relationship in the future allow something redo.

Criteria for the decision - to let go or not to release staff for long holidays - in the opinion of the majority of employers are evident: the value of a specialist for the company, the desire to preserve it, or the value of the results of his sabbatical. "The very notion of" sabbatical "in my opinion, does not involve lying on the beach, because to do - create a means that involves some work on the intellectual product", - says Andrey Stepanov, General Director of CTC PRopaganda. He cites an example from the practice of his company, where leading experts asked a month's leave to write a methodology development and implementation of corporate culture in large companies. He needed it for a dissertation, and the company, having such a technique could systematize its experience and get a good methodical material. "Develop the document and combine the ongoing work was difficult, and we knew it. Therefore, additional paid leave the employee was granted ", - says Stepanov.

To complete the picture with the scenery "protracted" Rest is an example of restaurant company Arpikom ", where the senior executives have such privileges, as a long-weekend. If other companies, executives can afford to leave three months of the year, then here - rest for three days a week. A similar practice, but for the staff of the rank below, formed in a large development company Forum Properties, where development director was let go employees in the so-called "Belgian holiday" for further education - is an additional day off per week, which is attached to either the Friday, or by Monday.

Of course, there are those who would say: not yet known which of these lulls - Long-term annual or weekly - is better and more useful. And the rest, for example, "Arpikome" are used differently than other companies, style. While in mid-January, the company met all workers returning from the long New Year holidays, "arpikomovtsy" full swing getting ready ... to celebrate the New Year. "For us this is not the celebration of the new calendar year, - says the personnel director Nina Litvinova. - This is a meeting of the new working year and summarizing the previous one. New Year's Eve itself, we note the gifts for employees. " Jan. 17 the company is finally congratulated his employees to be given the corporate award "Firebird" the best bartender, best restaurant manager and other "field" and office staff. Some of the winners qualified for the resort. The time has come to rest, if not a year. The restaurant industry can not afford.

Legal Notice. What is fraught with "free fall"?

Valery Narezhny, managing partner at the law firm of Levant and partners ":

Indeed, employees often look to employers to provide them an opportunity to not show up at work over a long period of time (several weeks or even months), the employee exceeds the time the main or additional (if fitted) leaves. This may be due to the need to complete some scientific work (eg, writing and defending his doctoral dissertation), exams (if an employee in connection with this not to an educational leave), care for a sick relative, for repairs, leaving for another city or State social, curriculum, etc. As a rule, if an employer is interested in maintaining such a professional, he goes to meet him, given the opportunity, and retaining such a worker's job. Cases of agreement in the series until you resign, and if the return we will have vacancies, we'll take, we have deliberately not going to consider, as such agreement is impossible as a legitimate record. It lies entirely in the sphere of interpersonal relationships with relevant employee representative of the employer. However, the employer, who agreed to let an employee with preserving his job, and the employee, the request be, there is a problem - how to formalize such arrangements.

In fact, the parties have two main ways:

1. Lodging an employee leave for the entire period of his absence from the workplace on any of the following reasons. 2. Do not draw the employee leave, and legally continue to hold him performing his work duties in full (regardless of whether the employee works at home in between caring for a sick relative or not).

Consider two such opportunities more:

1. The most obvious (and legally more literate) address the issue of temporary absence in the workplace with the persistence him such a design he leave for a period of absence. But before the parties immediately raises the question - whether such leave is paid or not. The fact is that according to Art. 115 TC RF worker as a general rule to an annual basic paid leave of 28 calendar days. Labor contract, collective agreement, federal laws and local regulations of the employer may provide for additional paid holidays. In this case there is no rule that prohibits an employee entitled to the basic and additional leave to take them in a row - here everything is decided by agreement with the employer.

However, TC RF exists and is such a thing as leave without pay (Article 128 of the LC RF). Such leave may be granted in agreement with the employer for family, personal circumstances, other valid reasons. The most important difference of leave that the employee in his period of not paid wages, but for him remains his workplace.

That is, if an employer wants to retain the employee during the leave period wages, you must arrange a holiday as the main series, additional leave, unless of course, the employee to the beginning of the leave accumulated enough "neotgulyannyh" ordinary and additional leave. Or need to make appropriate changes in the collective agreement - specifically for this case.

All matter is in the tax laws. Normally, salaries and holiday deductible for income tax. However, the tax inspectorate to refuse to accept the cost of additional vacation leave if such leave is not provided for by law or collective agreement. This follows from paragraph 24 of Article. 270 Tax Code. Thus, if an employer wants to retain the staff member's salary for the period of such extended leave, he must make the appropriate changes in the collective agreement.

2. If the employer agrees that the employee performed his duties remotely (which is quite possible for many office workers who perform their work at the computer and sent them to the employer via e-mail).

Here in essence everything is built on trust of the parties to each other. No changes in employment documents were not made, the employer continues to fill out timesheets, recording the presence of the officers at work. However, in case of failure by the parties of their oral agreements, problems may arise and the employee and the employer.

In particular, the employer, suddenly changed his attitude to working remotely officer may stop filling timesheet timesheets, record absenteeism and, if the employee had previously been disciplined, dismissed it on that basis. Prove later in court the existence of a verbal agreement with the employer, the employee will be extremely difficult - in fact our courts in general do not view the e-mails as admissible evidence in the case. The only chance of a staff member there may be a testimony of his colleagues.