Vitebsk region enterprises will more often encourage employees for a healthy lifestyle

According to Viktor Lugovtsov, Deputy Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Trade Union Association, the state's social policy is aimed at the most valuable asset – preserving the life and health of citizens.

Trade unions consider this task a priority in their activities and do everything possible to encourage employees who engage in physical culture and sports, lead a healthy lifestyle, and participate in sports and mass events.

The practice of collective bargaining regulation shows that many work collectives in the region are already implementing measures for moral and material incentives for such employees.

– At the same time, our task is to expand this practice. For this purpose, primary trade union organizations will now themselves initiate the inclusion of provisions in local tariff agreements and collective agreements aimed at moral and material incentives. This includes the purchase of sports and fitness club memberships at the expense of enterprises or on a parity basis with trade union organizations, or full or partial reimbursement of their cost to the employee, – said the Deputy Chairman.

Viktor Lugovtsov also emphasized that not all organizations have the opportunity to include employee incentive measures.

Trade unions intend to work more closely with the management of such organizations so as not to exclude the provisions of the collective agreement on organizing health and sports events, but to temporarily suspend their implementation until the situation at the enterprise improves, as was the case at Naftan OJSC at one time.

BELTA. Photo from the archive of "Vitebskiye Vesti".