Labor Law in Russia: Historical Contradictions in the Regulation of Labor Relationships

Abstract

The aim of the work is to study the main patterns of the development of labor law in Russia in their problematic key. A conclusion is made about the presence of a number of general trends in the development of the branch of law. Pre-revolutionary and Soviet legislators formed strategic concepts and individual judgments in the legal regulation of labor relationships. At the same time the genesis and development of this branch of law were characterized by a number of destructive foundations that are inherent to particular systems and historical periods. Such ‘genetic’ problems are: laws making the legal regulation of work susceptible to the influence of the political environment; periodic evasion by legislators of the objective economic principles; the conflict between standard legal regulation and unlawful practices in the world of work; excessive formalization of labor law; a degree of centralization in regulating labor relationships, which was not optimum. The above contradictions are largely objective and forced in nature. However, the fight against them is still necessary in the interests of increasing the efficiency of the regulation of the world of labor in the Russian society.