Lushnikov, A.M. Russian labor law: challenges of the XXI century

Abstract: The article formulates a definition of challenges in the development of labor law through revealing patterns , defining them based upon the tendencies of further development and the attempt to bring law-making and expert activities into accordance with them. Then based upon the patterns the author singles out the main tendencies of development of labor law. He provides a review of the main tendencies of development of the labor law. He substantiates a conclusion on the expansion of the labor law at the turn of the centuries. He discusses the concept of “flexibility” of labor relations in the modern condition due to the widening of the scope of non-typical forms of employment. The author discusses a problem of legal limits to the “flexibility” of labor law. Special attention is paid to the “new look” of the personal labor rights of a worker in the conditions of information society. The author provides characteristics of the right of worker to dignified labor with respect to its international dimension. The author then notes the perspectives of the further improvement of the legal mechanism for the social partnership as the basis for the harmonization of individual and collective labor rights.

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