On Some Peculiarities and Problems of Russian Labour Law

Abstract

This article highlights some peculiarities and actual problems of Russian Labour Law, Russian Labour Code reform and the problems of codification of Russian labour legislation. First, the author draws attention to the fact that Russian labour legislation is organized as a completely independent autonomous branch of Russian law. The second peculiarity consists in heavy legislative regulation of relations arising at the conclusion of an employment contract. The overprotection of the worker has the effect of deterioration of its position. The third peculiarity consists in ascribing labour legislation to objects of joint legislation, to objects of joint jurisdiction of the Federation and its subjects. Thereby, both the Federation and its subjects are authorized to draw up labour legislation separately and independently. Serious work has to be done regarding the problem of delimitation of objects of jurisdiction between the bodies of state power of the Russian Federation and the bodies of the RF subjects.