The bill will limit the duration of internships in Russia to six months

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The Labor Internship Bill would limit their duration to six months.

After completing the internship and concluding an open-ended employment contract, the probationary period is canceled.

It will be possible to become an intern within a year after completing professional education, not counting the period of military service, maternity and child care leave, as well as caring for a family member.

MOSCOW, June 11 - RIA Novosti. The bill on internships in the world of work will limit its duration to six months and abolish the probationary period for hiring after completing an internship, Ekaterina Stenyakina, a member of the Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs, told RIA Novosti.

“United Russia often receives appeals from young people with complaints about unfair internships. The new bill closes two loopholes at once for managers who try to cheat and exploit young employees. A person has completed an internship, an open-ended employment contract is concluded with him: this means that the employer has already understood everything about him. There will be no probationary period in this case, this is fair,” Stenyakina said.

She noted that, together with her colleagues from the United Russia party, she is among the authors of the bill, which was submitted to the State Duma in early June.

“We propose to enshrine a clear wording in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation - “internship in the world of work” - and give clear guarantees to beginning workers,” the deputy clarified.

Stenyakina drew attention to the fact that the bill, in addition to the concepts of “trainee” and “internship,” contains two norms that directly protect young workers.

Firstly, according to her, the internship cannot become an open-ended “trap” - its maximum period will be 6 months, and, secondly, if after the internship a specialist is hired under an open-ended contract, he will no longer be assigned a probationary period.

The parliamentarian believes that an internship is a start; it cannot turn into a long story with low pay.

“For up to six months, the position will directly indicate “trainee,” but no one will be able to keep an employee at a trainee rate for years. The company should promptly train a new employee, assigning him a mentor, and not formally call him a trainee in order to save money,” Stenyakina added.

She explained that according to the new bill, it will be possible to become an intern within a year after completing vocational education (training), but this period will not include the period of military service, maternity leave and child care, or the period of caring for a family member.

“We are firmly confident that integrating new employees into the workforce with the help of an existing mentoring mechanism and a clear internship format will reliably secure a young specialist in the workplace and increase his efficiency. This is fully consistent with the instructions that our president gave in February following a meeting of the Council on Personnel Training for the Economy,” summed up the member of the Duma committee.

Earlier, the press service of the State Duma reported that the chairman of the chamber, Vyacheslav Volodin, instructed the relevant committees of the chamber to ensure the implementation of the instructions of Russian President Vladimir Putin based on the results of SPIEF-2026. According to Volodin, the bills should be considered before the end of the session.