Kyselova O.
Doctor of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor, Associate Professor of the
Department of Administrative, Economic Law and Financial and Economic Securityof
the Educational-scientific Institute of Law of Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine
THE PRINCIPAL DIRECTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LEGAL
REGULATION OF LABOUR IN UKRAINE
Introduction. Nowadays, social relations in the world of work bring up the need
for developing an adequate mechanism for their legal regulation. There is a rejection
of the state-only regulation of this sphere of social life, moreover, the role of law as a
regulatory instrument is changing. It is no longer limited to static consolidation of the
reached positions in society, foreseeing and promoting social change which takes place
in our country’s social development are now seen as even more significant function of
labour law. In this regard, the question about the shift in emphasis in social and labour
legal regulation is inevitable. At the same time, the state establishes legal guarantees
of labour rights protection, the extent of labour regulation, defines the principles of
finding common employees and employers interests and preventing the negative
consequences of their inconsistencies.
The growing importance of international and agreement-based regulation is
prooved by legislation, adopted in recent years in Ukraine. In particular, there have
been extended the powers of the parties to collective employment agreements and the
agreements on working time regulations, time off work periods, wages, employees
financial and socio-economic motivation, labour protection, there has been established
a drafting procedure and conditions of the contract as a special type of employment
agreement etc. Furthermore, the growing role of labour regulation is attributed to the
development of social partnership in Ukraine, which is aimed at peaceful resolution of
all parties’ interests, search for compromising approach to labour disputes, ensuring
social peace and harmony in society. However, the development of social partnership
requires further developments of legislation which would clearly define its system,
structure and types, special status of national and international bodies as its subjects,
the effectiveness of their powers, distribution of state representatives powers in social
partnership system.
Scientific and theoretical basis for the research is build upon the works of S.S.
Alekseev, N.B. Bolotina, V.M. Horshenyev, S.A. Ivanov, M.I. Inshyn, D.A. Kerimov,
Z.Y. Kozak, R.I. Kondratiev, V.V. Lazarev, L. I. Lazor, R. Z. Lifshits, A. R. Matsyuk,
A.S. Pashkova, P.D. Pylypenko, S.M. Prylypko, V.I. Prokopenko, O.I. Protsevskiy,
P.M. Rabinovich, N.M. Hutoryan, H.I. Chanysheva, L.S. Yavych, O.N. Yaroshenko
and others.
- 1051 -