Social partnership in labour sphere : lecture 1

professor S.A. Sobolev
Izhevsk
2011

Opinions, given in present
work, do not reflect common

accepted
point of view in law science and
labour law.
Present publication is developed in
accordance with educational program
course «Labour law in Russia».
Legislation about law and court
practice is given for December 20, 2011

Creation history and modern development of SP.
Concept and content of

SP.
Basic principles, forms and bodies of SP.
Parties of SP and its representatives.
Collective negotiations: terms, order
and procedures of realization.

Lecture 1. Issues:

system of interrelations between employees (representatives of
employees), employers (representatives of

employers),
public authorities, local government authorities,
directed to provide interests of employees
and employers in questions of regulation in labour
and others directly connected with them relations.

Social partnership – interaction of government
authorities, employers and trade unions
in determination and realization in life agreed
social-economical politics, politics in sphere of
labour relations, and also bilateral relations
between employers and trade unions, directed to
protection of interests agreement in order,
defined by legislation (art. 1
Model law about social partnership
from November 16, 2006)

half
XVIII century (Citulsky V.F., 2006)
History of legal regulation

social-partnership relations
in Russia:

Appearance of first collective agreements in Russia
is correlated with the beginning of ХХ (Tal L.S.,
1909; Voitnsky I.S., 1911). (First coll. agreement
in 1904 in Baku (Mirzoev M., 1996))

Soviet period: KZoT 1918, 1922, 1971;
resolution VCSPS and GKT USSR November 27 1987
General thesis about order of collective
contracts making.

partnership and resolution of labour
disputes (conflicts). (Becomes invalid in 1996)
History

and nowadays of
social-partnership relations
in labour sphere:

Law RF March 11 1992 «About collective
contracts and agreements»
(Becomes invalid in 2006)

1) art. 15, 30, 37, 72 Constitution RF;
2) Part two. Section II. «Social partnership in
labour sphere» LC RF;

RF)
3. Institute LL
(P. 2. Section II
LC RF)
4. Collective
(social-partnership,
social-labour)
legal

relations in LL (art. 1, 40,
45, 398 LC RF and others)

6. Quite concrete collective contract,
agreement

2. Method
element LL
(art. 2, 9
LC RF)

5. Source
(form) LL
(art. 5 LC RF)

element LL
…right to participate for employees, employers,
and its unions in

agreement of regulation
labour and other …relations (art. 2 LC RF)

… combination of state and agreement
regulation of labour and other…relations (art. 2 LC RF)

According to labour legislation
regulation of labour and others…relations
could be made by making,
changing, addition …CC, CA, LC (art. 9 LC RF).

law norms,
directed to regulation of collective
(social-partnership, social-labour)
relations (Part Two.

Chapter II. art. 23-55 LC RF)

Collective contract (art. 40-44, 50, 51 LC RF)

Agreement (art. 45-51 LC RF)

Principles SP, parties, order disputes settlement and others

Concept apparatus, history of
creation and modern development

(art. 1, 40,
45, 398-418 LC RF)
SP institute
General position

LL.
General beginning LL

Separate institute
norms LL
(art. 94, 101,103,
108, 128, 135 LC RF

Discussion and
resolution of
collective LC
(Ch. 61 LC RF)

practice
Concept apparatus and content of institute of
social partnership in

labour sphere
(further SP) is developed:

a basic for agreement regulation of labour
relations with the help

of collective contracts and agreements,
is included in LL method, as a part of its integral
features (Smirnov O.V., Snigireva I.O., 2007)

SP is done on bilateral basis (in condition of so called
bipartism, i.e. bilateral cooperation between employers
And employees), and on trilateral basis
(… «threepartism», i.e employees, employers
and state). (Mavrin S.P., Khohlov E.B., 2007)

in legal mechanism SP is chosen regulatory and
protective parts (Lushnikov A.M., Lushnikova M.V., 2003)

SP is a good example of self-organization in
civil society (Nurtdinova A.F., 1998)

RF
Acts WTO UN,
CIS
Union of employers – non-governmental organization,
united employers on

voluntary basis for representatives of
interests and right protection of its members in mutual
relations with trade unions, government authorities and local
government authorities (art. 33 LC RF)

Employees use appropriate protection against any
discrimination activities, directed to liberty restraint
unions in labour sphere (art. 1 Convention WTO
№ 98 «About law principles use for organization and for
administration of collective negotiations» (1949) …application for
job …job preservation…discharge…of employee… that not to
be a part of trade union or get out of trade union…

(art. 3)
Trade union (art. 2)
Trade union representative
(agent) (art. 3)
1.

LC RF

2. FL from January 12 1996 № 10-FL
«About trade unions, its
rights and guarantees of activity»

3. Conventions, Recommendations
WTO, UN, Model laws CIS

Collective
labour dispute
(art. 398)

Lockout (art. 415)

Collective
negotiations

Social
partnership

Collective contract

union, including
creation of trade unions to protect the interests;
Art. 37

– right for individual and collective labour
disputes…, right for strike.

Acts WTO, CIS: Declaration about basic principles and
rights in labour sphere (1998) – association freedom
and active right recognition for collective
negotiations (art. 2); Convention about law principles
application for organization and for making
collective negotiations (1949);
Model law about social partnership
from November 16 2006

LC RF, FL, laws of Russian subjects, other NLA, collective
contracts, agreements: FL May 1 1999 «About
Russian trilateral commission in regulation of
social-labour relations» and others

of
rights
labour legislation
compliance
(art. 8, 9 LC RF)
authority of
parties representatives
state
assistance
interest

of parties
in agreement
relations (art. 54 LC
RF)

respect and interest
registration

parties responsibility, its representatives
for non-compliance through its fault CC, CA

employees in
organization management
participation of SP parties in disputes
resolution

consists of representatives:
2. subject of RF
3. territory level
4. branch (inter-branch)

level – RF,
subject or subjects RF, territory

General Russian association of trade unions;
General Russian association of employers;
Russian Government.

LC RF)
Employers in the person of authorized representatives
Employers in

the person of authorized representatives

trade
unions

other representatives

employer-
individual entrepreneur
(personally) or others.

organization
executive or
representatives

association of employers

entrepreneurs or
one or some entrepreneur organizations,
From one part, and one

or some workers organizations
- from another…(Convention WTO № 154 «About assistance to
collective negotiations» 1981 Not ratified by Russia)

Collective negotiations

Organizations of workers and entrepreneurs have to
use proper protection against any acts of
intervention from the part of each others or from the part
of its agents or members in creation and activity of
organization and management (Convention WTO № 98
«Regarding use of law principles for organization
and making of collective agreements» 1949
Ratified by USSR)

CN
order
procedure
terms
Participate in CN only
plenipotentiaries
Offer to begin CN
in written form
7 calendar

days

1 month

2 weeks

3 months

Two or more prof. organizations
could create united representative
authority

Labour law: tutorial / In edition by O.V. Smirnov, I.O.

Snigireva, 2009.
3. Labour law: tutorial / In edition by S.P. Mavrin, E.B. Khohlov, 2007.
4. Nurtdinova A.F. Collective-agreement regulation of labour relations in
modern Russia. M., 1998.
5. Tal L.S. Tariff (collective) agreement as an institute of civil law. Saint
Petersburg, 1909.
6 Voitinsky I.S. Collective agreements about labour conditions
(tariff agreement). P, 1917.
7. Citulsky V.F. Social-partnership regulation of labour relations
in Russia (history, theory, tendencies of development):
Monography. M., 2006.
8. Mirzoev M. Pages of history in trade movement // Bulletin of trade
unions. 1996. № 11-12.