People under house arrest to be allowed distant work 

ArmInfo.  Persons under house  arrest will be able to continue their work activities remotely. At an extraordinary session on April 22, the Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia issued a positive opinion on the amendments to the Labor Code of the Republic of Armenia submitted by the Government of the Republic of Armenia in the second and final reading.

Presenting the amendments, Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic of Armenia Tigran Dadunts emphasized that such an opportunity can be implemented on the basis of an employment agreement between the employer and the employee. The presented document, the speaker emphasized, is based on the provisions of the new Criminal Procedure  Code, which provides for an alternative preventive measure in the form of house arrest. However, when applying it, issues related to the further course of labor relations arose, which remained outside the scope of legal regulation.

The draft law proposes to consider the employee's powers suspended from the moment the court applies a preventive measure in the form of house arrest to the employee, including a person in the civil service, until it is changed or eliminated by another preventive measure, if, in addition to a written undertaking not to leave, restrictions incompatible with the performance of work duties are applied to him. If the said restrictions are not applied, it is proposed not to suspend the employee's powers during the period of house arrest by mutual agreement of the employer and the employee, if the nature of the work allows it to be performed remotely. It is also proposed to fully retain the employee's job during the period of house arrest, and if the employee's powers are not suspended by  agreement between the employer and the employee, then also the salary. 

According to the draft law, if the employee's powers are recognized as suspended during the period of house arrest, the salary of the person in the civil service will not be retained. In all cases, the investigative body notifies the employer of the decisions made by the court. Taking into account that notifications may contain state secrets, it was decided to introduce a provision into the bill according to which notifications will contain wording of a general nature