Peculiarities of employment of employees with family responsibilities

Abstract

The article analyzes the provision of equality in employment, which cannot be ignored, is the prevention of discrimination on the basis of such a criterion as family responsibilities, which in today’s conditions can act as an independent reason, moreover, it applies to employees of any gender, and not only women The domestic legislation was studied, which does not provide a definition of the term «employees with family responsibilities». However, according to the norms of international acts, men and women who have family responsibilities towards their dependent children are considered to be such when such responsibilities limit their ability to train, access, participate or advance in economic activities. It was quite significant that the national legislation provided for ensuring that research groups of persons who perform or want to perform paid work, the conditions under which they could exercise their right to work, cases of discrimination would be prevented and professional duties would be harmoniously combined with family duties. The author, in the context of scientific research, proposed to reveal the category of «persons with family responsibilities» as «an association of persons related to each other by rights and obligations arising from marriage, kinship, kinship, adoption and another form of relationship (family)»
 On the basis of the works of domestic scientists, the question of the availability of benefits and guarantees that apply only to women, which is related to their physiological characteristics and the period of active motherhood, and all other guarantees that can be extended not only to women, has been investigated at the level of labor legislation. and workers with family responsibilities.