Russia Updates Overtime Pay Calculation

Amendments to Russia’s labor code that require all wages to be used to calculate overtime pay rates were published April 22 and take effect Sept. 1.

The amendments (Russian) clarify the previous wording of the labor code’s section on overtime pay. The section was previously interpreted to mean that only an employee’s base salary, and not any additional regular payments they may receive, had to be increased by time-and-a-half or two times, as appropriate.

Russia’s constitutional court took up the issue in 2023 in a case involving a public employee who received a base salary far below the applicable minimum ...