Protection of labor and social rights: experience of an interdisciplinary approach

Abstract

The problems of using an interdisciplinary approach to protect labor and social rights are considered. Legal regulation of labor, which is inextricably linked with the personality of a worker, requires reliance on knowledge of the sciences about man and society. The legal institution of labor protection, formed contrary to or without taking into account technical standards, will not achieve the goal of creating safe working conditions. Sectoral labor legal protections for effectively achieving results in the field of labor migration, creating a comprehensive system for protecting the life and health of an employee during working life, protecting workers in the event of an employer’s insolvency, implementing the constitutional guarantee of respect for the working person, etc. must achieve intersectoral and interdisciplinary harmonization. At the same time, the author proceeds from the fact that Labor Law both has an interdisciplinary impact on other branches of law and itself is improved under their influence. Labor and social standards must undergo interdisciplinary verification at the stage of their formation by the legislator. It is proposed to make it mandatory to discuss all bills containing norms regulating labor and social relations in the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans Affairs and the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy, as well as in the Russian Tripartite Commission for the Regulation of Social and Labor Relations, even if in general these projects belong to a different industry.