Labor law – Employment, Social Affairs

The legalization of labor relations is of particular importance today, since it is a significant source for replenishing budget revenues, on which both the volume of services provided to citizens at the expense of the budget and the guarantee of the labor rights of an employee depend. In addition, it was “informal workers” who suffered the most during the pandemic, because, due to their position, they could not initially claim any guarantees. Armenian lawyers will help you with these kinds of problems.

The subject of labor law.

Labor legislation used both to regulate relations in the field of individual employment, and as a basis for regulating relations between employees and employers through collective interaction mechanisms, including the conclusion of collective labor agreements between trade unions and employers or employers’ organizations, as well as participation mechanisms. employees in business management.

Legislative regulation of relationships in the field of individual employment, as a rule, involves the adoption of legal acts that regulate the emergence and termination of relationships (in matters such as the conclusion of employment contracts, as well as the suspension and termination of their validity), as well as the rights and obligations in relation to various aspects of such relationships (for example, minimum worker age, youth labor, gender issues, working hours, rest time, wages, occupational safety and health, maternity protection). It also involves legislative regulation of the procedures and activities of relevant law enforcement agencies (e.g. labor inspectorates and the judiciary).

The regulation of collective interaction between workers and employers, as a rule, implies legal guarantees for the right of workers and employers to create professional organizations, the right to conduct collective bargaining, the right to strike, and the right of workers to participate in the management of the enterprise.

Labor law tradition.

Although legislation on these matters exists in most countries, there are also significant differences in the scope of regulation in this area, the degree of sophistication of the details of regulation, as well as the extent to which the competence of workers and employers and their organizations in regulating all these issues within the framework of collective-contractual practice or through individual-contractual regulation.

In some countries with traditions of common (case) law, the main elements of the relationship in the field of individual employment have traditionally been regulated by law, and most of the other issues the parties could decide by mutual agreement. However, over the past century and even earlier, legislators have become increasingly involved in the regulation of labor issues, with the result that in most of these countries the most significant of these issues are now to some extent, and often quite detailed, in the legislation.

Civil law

In countries with a civil law tradition, labor law is often, but not always, regulated in codified and comprehensive labor codes. In most cases, labor law issues were first regulated by civil codes, namely the rules relating to the conclusion of contracts. Over time, special labor standards have appeared. Often it became part of the labor code and changed in accordance with it.