Employees’ Procedural Guarantees under the Legislation of the EAEU Member States in the Consideration of Individual Labor Disputes

Abstract

This article attempts to assess the prospects for harmonization of the legislation of the EAEU member states in the field of judicial protection of employees’ labor rights. For this purpose, the paper compares the rules of the EAEU countries on individual labor disputes (labor, civil procedure, enforcement, collection of fees) with the leading judicial practice and scientists’ opinions. The article examines such employees’ procedural guarantees in the field of consideration of individual labor disputes as the lack of conditional jurisdiction, alternative jurisdiction, exemption from court fees, the shortened term of consideration of the case, immediate execution of the court’s decision. It is concluded that in general the approaches of the EAEU member states to the regulation of judicial protection of employees’ labor rights in the field of individual labor disputes coincide, which contributes to the harmonization of their legislation. However, in some EAEU member states there is a tendency to reduce the procedural guarantees of employees, which is a factor constraining harmonization.