ПРОИЗВОДСТВЕННЫЕ СОВЕТЫ В РОССИИ И РАЗВИТЫХ СТРАНАХ ЕВРОПЕЙСКОГО СОЮЗА

Abstract

Introduction. This article discusses topical issues related to legal regulation of activities of workers councils with the Russian Federation and some countries of the European Union. In modern conditions of development of economy of the Russian Federation, organizations must improve the mechanism of representation of workers in the management of these organizations as a way of improving economic performance and stable growth. However, to talk about any positive developments in this area of public relations is premature because the workers themselves are not active in the management of organizations, not even trying to implement the existing law. At the same time employers consider the activity of individual workers or group of workers, usually as interference in the production activity of the organization, the disclosure of trade secrets etc. Employee councils that came into existence quite recently in Russia that could be on par with trade unions representing interests of hired workers are still only in the formative stage, and do not possess the real powers. The developed countries of the European Union (Federal Republic of Germany, France, Austria, Czech Republic and many others) have accumulated very interesting experience in the creation and activities of employee councils, which under certain circumstances can be used in Russia. Materials and methods : The methodological basis of the present legal study was the method of scientific cognition. The author used general scientific and specific methods such as analysis, synthesis, formal logical method, historical method, methods of legal interpretation, theoretical, comparative law. The results of the research . As a result of the research the analysis and synthesis of scientific, normative and practical materials were carried out and the theoretical concepts and insights were formulated and substantiated. Legal regulation of the activities of workers councils in developed countries of the European Union has its own peculiarities, very different from the legal regulation of the activities of these bodies of public initiative in the Russian Federation. It appears that the use in Russia of this International experience will allow the country to move towards development of industrial democracy, the involvement of large segments of employees in the actual management of organizations. Discussion and conclusion : The necessity of borrowing by the Russian Federation of the best practices of workers councils’ activities that exist in developed countries of the European Union (Germany, France, Austria, the Czech Republic and some others) is substantiated. Employee councils in Russia should not repeat the negative experience of creating such social groups in the 1990-ies in the USSR, when imposed on labor collectives they began to duplicate, and in some cases replace, the work of trade unions, which led to extremely negative processes for the development of the real industrial democracy.