Productivity and Qualification as Categories of Labour Law

Abstract

The Labor Code of the Russian Federation repeatedly mentions the terms «labor productivity» and «qualification,» while the definition of the first category by the legislator is not given, and the definition of the qualification of the employee appeared in the code relatively recently and the norms in which these terms are indicated are focused throughout the code, which complicates the establishment of for which relations regulated by labor law, for which rights of workers these categories are legally significant. On the basis of the analysis of the rules of the labour legislation in force, this article concludes the relations for which these categories, both separately and collectively, have legal significance, as well as what the legal meaning of these terms for the conclusion, modification and termination of an employment contract is, in particular, for relations directly related to employment contracts.