The sources of labor law are various regulations governing labor relations and relations that are closely related to them. There are different types of sources of labor law.
The existing source of labor law can be a form of expression of labor legislation in a legal act. Such acts contain only labor law norms or are complex. Sources of labor law must be accepted by the designated authorities.
The main types of sources of labor law
The standard classification of sources of labor law is their distribution by legal force. Particularly significant sources of labor law are considered: the Constitution of the Russian Federation, federal laws and international regulations, laws of Russian subjects and presidential decrees, government decrees, regulations of departments and ministries, acts of local self-government bodies and local regulations.
Not the last place among legal sources is occupied by the Constitution of Russia. It has the highest legal force and enshrines the main civil labor rights. The main federal law is considered to be the Labor Code. The law can control the labor relations of workers and presupposes the establishment of the highest level of conditions for normal work activities. Presidential decrees occupy a central place among by-laws. The main thing is that they do not contradict the current Constitution. Not all acts adopted by the head of state can be considered as sources of labor law.
As for the decrees of the Russian government, they are acts of the executive power, which are designed to concretize and clarify the legal acts that are superior. Social partnership agreements can be considered a fundamentally new source of labor law. It turns out that the social partners are representatives of workers and employers. Local regulations, which can act as sources of labor law, are also quite important.
Other classifications of sources of labor law
All sources of labor law can be subdivided:
- according to the form of the act on laws, decrees, decrees and regulations;
- according to the scope of action on federal, sectoral and territorial;
- by industry affiliation into complex and industry-specific;
- by the nature of the norms for general and special regulations;
- by the degree of generalization into codified and non-codified.
