# The Labor Laws of Soviet Russia/Appendix 1

APPENDIX TO SECTION 79
Rules Concerning Unemployed and Payment of Subsidies
1. "Unemployed" shall mean every citizen of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic subject to labor duty who is registered with the local Department of Labor Distribution as being out of work at his vocation or at the remuneration fixed by the proper tariff.
2. "Unemployed" shall likewise mean:
(a) Any person who has obtained employment for a term not exceeding two weeks (Section 25 of the present Code);
(b) Any person who is temporarily employed outside his vocation, until he shall obtain work at his vocation (Sections 29 and 30 of the present Code).
3. The rights of unemployed shall not be extended—
(a) To persons who in violation of Sections 21. 24 and 29 of the present Code, have evaded the labor duty, and refused work offered to them;
(b) To persons not registered as unemployed with the local Department of Labor Distribution (Section 21 of the present Code);
(c) To persons who have wilfully quit work, during the term specified in Section 53 of the present Code.
4. All persons described in Section 1 and subdivision "b" of Section 2 of these Rules shall be entitled to permanent employment (for a term exceeding two weeks) at their vocation in the order of priority determined by the list of the Department of Labor Distribution for each vocation.
5. Persons described in Section 1 and subdivision "b" of Section 2 of these Rules shall be entitled to a subsidy from the local fund for unemployed.
6. The subsidy to unemployed provided in Section 1 of the present Rules shall be equal to the remuneration fixed by the tarilf for the group and category to which ​the wage earner was assigned by the valuation commission (Section 61).
Note. In exceptional cases the People's Commissariat of Labor may reduce the unemployed subsidy to the minimum of living expenses as determined for the district in question.
7. A wage earner employed temporarily outside of his vocation (Subdivision "b" of Section 2 of these Rules) shall receive a subsidy equal to the difference between the remuneration fixed for the group and category in which he is enrolled and his actual remuneration, in case the latter be less than the former.
8. An unemployed who desires to avail himself of his right to a subsidy shall apply to the local fund for unemployed and shall present the following documents: (a) his registration card from the local Department of Labor Distribution; and (b) a certificate of the valuation commission showing his assignment to a definite group and category of wage earners.
9. Before paying the subsidy the local fund for unemployed shall ascertain, through the Department of Labor Distribution and the respective trade union, the extent of applicant's unemployment and the causes thereof, as well as the group and category to which he belongs.
10. The local fund for unemployed may for good reasons deny the application for a subsidy.
11. If an application is denied, the local fund for unemployed shall, within three days from the filing of the application, inform the applicant thereof.
12. The decision of the local fund for unemployed may within two weeks be appealed from by the interested parties to the local Department of Labor, and the decision of the latter may be appealed from to the District Department of Labor. The decision of the District Department of Labor shall be final and subject to no further appeal.
13. The payment of the subsidy to an unemployed shall commence only after he has actually been laid off, but not later than after the fourth day.
14. The subsidies shall be paid from the fund of unemployment insurance.
​15. The fund of unemployment insurance shall be made up—
(a) from obligatory payments by all enterprises, establishments and institutions employing paid labor;
(b) from fines imposed for default in such payments;
(c) from casual payments.
16. The amount and the manner of collection of the payments and fines mentioned in Section 15 of these Rules shall be determined every year by a special order of the People's Commissariat of Labor.