New rules for granting certain supplements to professional soldiers, introduction of a incentive benefit for non-professionals and professional soldiers who are educated in, for example, a military college or a non-commissioned school – specified changes supply for a draft amendment of the Law on the Defence of Homeland. The paper is presently in interministerial consultation.
Professional soldiers can number on a number additional financial claims to pay. In addition to the service allowances, peculiar or those for the internship of the service, they can besides receive the alleged additional incentive benefit. The head of the MON shall have the right to grant them if, for example, the military is serving in exceptional conditions or places, has peculiar qualifications or performs tasks peculiarly crucial to the armed forces. The benefit shall be granted for a specified period and at the amount described in the decision.
– Experience with the granting of this debt has confirmed the appropriateness of introducing it into the strategy of professional soldier salaries as a discretionary component – the representatives of the MON argue. In practice, the Minister of National Defence can separate financially selected groups of soldiers who execute crucial tasks for the safety of the State, specified as border protection or prevention or eradication of natural disasters.
Motivation for Service
Perhaps the right to specified Credits will besides be paid to soldiers non-professional, i.e., territorial. This solution appeared in the motion prepared by the MON to amend the Law on Defence of the Motherland. And it has its reasons – both at the border and during this year's flood action, the territorialists were active in aid measures and doing akin tasks Like professional soldiers. In addition to appreciating the work of soldiers, the benefit is besides intended to be an additional incentive for exemplary performance of duties or raising their qualifications.
As in the case of professional soldiers, the service would be granted by the Minister of National Defence. This would warrant "the maintenance of control over the expenditure limit and guarantee uniformity of the criteria for granting this duty". Professional soldiers would besides be entitled to the provision in the course of training at a military college, a junior advanced school, a centre or a training centre.
Allowances paid under fresh rules
The amendment besides introduces changes to the rules on the granting of professional allowances to soldiers: service for service in a military unit, motivational unit and for long - word military service. At present, decisions on their granting are issued for a limited or indefinite period, but no longer than the time a soldier has served in a position of service. “This legal state forces decisions to be made whenever a soldier changes his position. Given the large number of military appointments, it is estimated that respective tens of thousands of specified papers are issued annually. Importantly, they are of a declaratory nature, due to the fact that the amount of allowances comes from the regulations, so each fresh decision boils down to duplication of content – the representatives of the MON admit.
This is why these rules are to be redoed. The amendment of the Act so assumes that the allowance for long-term military service will be granted erstwhile for the duration of the service, and the another 2 allowances: service and motivation for the service in the unit.
The draft amendment is presently in interministerial consultation.
