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Iryna Yaskevich: Entrepreneurs Need Their Own Trade Union

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Iryna Yaskevich: Entrepreneurs Need Their Own Trade Union
IRYNA YASKEVICH
PHOTO: UCPB.ORG

The sentiment among the Belarusian IPs is encouraging.

This was stated by the leader of businessmen from Vitsebsk, Iryna Yaskevich, in an interview with the ucpb.org website.

- What are the most pressing problems for sole traders today?

- Today, the first place is given to shoe marking. If it skips on unfavorable conditions for sole traders, then the marking of all imported goods will be ahead.

The second problem is the waybills, which are often recognized as unscrupulous.

Our sole traders can hardly control this, because the counterparty selling the goods can deny them and say that nothing had been sold to our businessman.

The third problem is the vulnerability of sole traders, inconsistency of legislation, especially the new one, to the very notion of entrepreneurship. This includes the working day, which is more than eight hours. We are also human beings! And if we do not have hired employees, it is very difficult for us to work for 12-14 hours. No lunch, no days off.

- So, is it not you who regulate the working day?

- Unfortunately, no. We managed to "beat off" 8 hours in Vitsebsk in due time. We changed a paragraph in the contract and thus did not violate the working hours of the building. And everyone else worked according to the schedule of the shopping center: if the shopping center was working from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., the entrepreneur had to be there the whole time.

- Why aren't these issues resolved? After all, they did not appear today.

- We talk about it wherever we can. But probably, those people who started to improve sole traders' work were not sole traders themselves and had no idea what the real situation was. That is, they have never been to the field, but they clearly know what, how and where to plant.

- How do you see ways of solving problems?

- I believe that sole traders need a trade union. Since it is very difficult for sole traders to get a legal understanding of solving the problem, what documents affect them. They have no time to get acquainted with them. And our tax inspectorate does not give explanations. It sends to the Internet or to some imaginary consultants...

A lot depends on how Russian documents and requirements will be interpreted. There is a provision in the document of the Eurasian Economic Commission that some of the problems can be solved at the national level, but our government either does not want or cannot solve them. Therefore, even the first signs of improvement do not turn out to be the best conditions in reality, but rather another condition to be clarified. In my opinion, there is a need for a law here, not for a bunch of clarifications to regulations.

- Do sole traders have prospects in Belarus?

- I am an optimist at heart. I believe that sole traders will exist. This is a good economy segment. There are the first attempts to meet us halfway, the desire to understand what sole traders are. And if we raise and voice problems, if we are followed by active sole traders, we will be able to resolve the problems.

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