Business trip abroad

On a business trip means a trip of an employee to perform an official assignment outside the place of permanent work at the employer's order. Foreign will be considered a business trip outside the Russian Federation. Travel abroad has a number of features in contrast to travel on the territory of the Russian Federation.

The first difference is in features of cost recovery. According to Art. 186 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, the employer is obliged to reimburse the expenses for travel and accommodation, as well as per diem, to the employee who was sent on a business trip. In the case of a foreign business trip, other expenses are included in the list of reimbursable costs, in particular:

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  expenses for registration of the passport, visa, compulsory medical insurance and other documents;
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  mandatory payments and fees, for example, consular and airport fees, fees for the right of entry or transit of road transport, etc.

Daily subsistence allowance is paid in the currency of the country where the employee is sent on a business trip. Their size is provided for by collectivecontract. If the duration of the foreign travel is one day, the daily allowance is paid in the amount of 50% of the norm established by the collective agreement. As long as the employee moves through the territory of the Russian Federation, daily subsistence allowance is paid according to the rates established for domestic travel (within the country). The payment of per diem according to the norms of the country of destination begins from the moment of crossing the border.

Also when traveling abroad, a travel document is not issued. The exception is a business trip abroad inone of the CIS countries with which intergovernmental agreements were concluded, on the basis of which the border authorities do not make notes on the crossing of the state border in the documents of entry and exit (agreements on visa-free regime).

Travel abroad is not available for all employees, but only for those with whom the employment contract was entered into. In foreign travel can not be sentemployees of third-party organizations or executors with whom a civil law contract was concluded, pregnant women, employees with whom the student contract was signed (except when the trip is related to the apprenticeship), as well as minors (excluding professional athletes, artists Media, theaters, etc.).

Also There are categories of employees who can be sent on a foreign business trip with their written consent and in the event that business trip abroad is notit is forbidden to them by medical recommendations. These include women with children under the age of three, parents of minor disabled children, single mothers (fathers), trustees and guardians with children under the age of five, as well as workers who care for sick members of their families in accordance with medical conclusion. These categories of workers have the right to refuse a foreign business trip.

The decision to send an employee to a foreign business trip is taken by the head of the organization on the basis of documents justifying the need for a business trip. The registration of a foreign business trip will depend on which country the employee is sent to. If he goes to a CIS country withvisa-free regime, it is necessary to issue an official task, an order for business trip and a business trip certificate. When traveling to countries with a visa regime, as well as countries with a visa-free regime that are not members of the CIS, the travel document, as we already mentioned above, is not formalized.