Lukashenka commissioned to eradicate vagrancy and make everyone work

By January 1, 2015 a system of laws on eradication of vagrancy has to be elaborated.

This task was set on 20 October at the government conference held to discuss employment and migration matters.

According to the press service of the President, the migration and employment situations in the country have a number of problems.  “We have to account for the decrease in the number of employable population and the country’s ageing population”, Aliaksandr Lukashenka said.

The Belarusian Interior Ministry Igor Shunevich has put forth the proposal to amend the Administrative Violations Code in order to introduce responsibility, including forced job placement, for citizens, who have no registered jobs and used to be termed as vagrants or parasites in the past.

He also suggested analyzing the demand for labor resources in the regions, determining the enterprises, which are ready to provide housing and salaries to workers, and accumulating the information in territorial employment assistance centers. In his opinion, it is necessary to revise plans of the oblast and district administrations regarding the distribution of the population taking into account the demographic situation and the economic one in the regions.

The President remarked that he supported all the relevant proposals voiced by the government. “If you are willing to re-introduce the term ‘vagrancy', go ahead. It will be more understandable for the people. We shouldn't waste anything good that was created in the Soviet times, including the terms. You have to use any means that we have and know how to apply to make these people work! Measures must be taken by 1 January to make everyone work!” he said.