Prakapovich: Individual entrepreneurs will not get back the right to hire people

The right to employ people is not planned to be given back to individual entrepreneurs.

The information came from Belarus’ vice-Prime Minister Piotr Prakapovich as he spoke to the journalists on Thursday in Hrodna, Interfax reports.

“The legislative base that we have for businesses of any property type is good. No one forbids an individual entrepreneur to create private enterprises, even more so that such enterprises have certain benefits”, - Prakapovich said.

In his opinion individual entrepreneurs should not be asking for the return of that right, but to grow instead. “If they (individual entrepreneurs) have grown, they should create micro enterprises, if they grow bigger – they should form small enterprises, then middle-scale ones”, - the vice-Prime Minister highlighted.

In this regard, Prakapovich pointed out that many successful private enterprises in Belarus started precisely with individual entrepreneurship, and advised entrepreneurs to take such successful businesses as role models.