Labour Codes of States-members of the Euroasian Economic Union and their place in systems of the labour legislation

Abstract

The purpose of this article is expressed in that the developments of academic jurists and the comparative analysis of the national legal system of member states of the Euroasian Economic Union may establish the place of labour codes in systems of the labour legislation of the above-mentioned countries. The main method used in the paper is that of comparative legal analysis. Оn the basis of the revealed signs, the author formulates the determination of the labour code, determines its place in system of the labour legislation of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, identifies problems of comparison and contradictions between the labour codes and other regulatory legal acts adopted in Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia, and poses suggestions for the improvement of separate regulations of the labour codes accepted in state members of the Euroasian Economic Union. The article’s conclusion presents the main conceptual idea of the need to harmonize labour law for state members of the Euroasian economic union and fix for all five codes of labour regulation in the national systems of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. According to the author, the labour codes of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia shall have priority in relation to all other laws (except constitutional), standard to legal acts of the President and the Government even if in a national system of law they are given legal force of the law. Refs 28.