Extrajudicial bodies for labor conflicts resolution

Abstract

The article studies the legal status of extrajudicial bodies for the resolution of labor conflicts as well as the procedure of labor conflicts resolution. It also analyses domestic and foreign extrajudicial bodies experience in resolving labor disputes. The resolution of labor disputes is traditionally associated with the judiciary. However, due to the overload of the latter, the length of the judicial procedure of considering and resolving conflicts and the high level of court costs, the search for alternative extrajudicial solutions to labor disputes is highly in demand. On the other hand, alternative extrajudicial methods of resolving labor disputes will significantly reduce the workload of judicial bodies and the social tension among the participants in the process of resolving labor disputes. The comradely courts were endowed with the trust of the staff, acted as its willpower and were accountable to it. These courts turned into a kind of public courts which were created to consider and resolve minor legal conflicts that did not affect essential human rights. The main purpose of the newly created comradely courts was to educate people through persuasion and social influence. Their activity was based on such principles as production-territorial principle, that of expediency, election and accountability of judges. In addition, the comradely courts, as a body of justice, operated on the same principles as courts of general jurisdiction, in particular, election and independence of judges, open and oral character of court proceedings.