METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO DETECTING UNDECLATED WORK

Abstract

Negative economic phenomena such as the informal labor market and informal employment in the formal sector are becoming increasingly widespread and pose a major threat to the economy as a whole and to social security in the labor market. These phenomena have the following common features: illegal employment of an employee without entering into an employment contract, which is provided for by the current legislation of Ukraine, concealment of actual working hours and payment of wages "in an envelope", substitution of actual employment contracts with civil and commercial contracts, non-payment of taxes, social insecurity and a high probability of employees being unemployed. At the same time, in the event of an injury in the informal labor market, the injured worker must spend significant funds on treatment without any compensation payments.
 The author examines the priority areas of state policy aimed at eliminating the threats of the informal labor market and the main reasons for the spread of informal employment in Ukraine, taking into account the specifics of the current state of the economy, as well as the consequences of informal social and labor relations for both the employee and the state (a significant reduction in the volume of budget revenues, as well as the share of tax revenues). The purpose of this study is to create tools for assessing the status of formalization of labor relations in Ukraine with a view to properly organizing state supervision (control) measures to identify undeclared labor relations, and to ensure uniformity of approaches for labor inspectors to assess the risks of undeclared labor by entities. A phased expert evaluation of measures to reduce production risk at an industrial enterprise with the introduction of weighting coefficients according to certain criteria is proposed. A consistent model for managing the risks of using undeclared labor has been developed, based on a component method for assessing the risk of traumatic events and a mathematical model of management decisions. This model takes into account all available information on labor relations obtained from various sources of its accumulation in the executive authorities, stimulates preventive activities and allows to establish the dependence of the level of occupational risk on the validity of labor protection measures and reduce the influence of the subjective component of expert judgments