On the Issue of Some Changes in the Legal Regulation of Labor Protection (On the Example of Kyrgyzstan and Russia)

About the author:

Kubanychbek S. Ramankulov, Cand. Sci. (Jur.), Professor, Head of Department of Civil, Labor and Environmental Law, Legal Faculty, Kyrgyz National University named after Balasagyn (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan); ramaks65knu@mail.ru

Abstract:

This article considers some transformations of the legal regulation of labor protection in the Kyrgyz Republic (or simply Kyrgyzstan) and the Russian Federation (Russia) in the comparative aspect. The example of Kyrgyzstan uncovers the consequences of the cancellation of the former USSR laws on the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic and the problems this abolition has caused in the law enforcement practice of Kyrgyzstan. The author notes the desire of the state labor inspectorate in Kyrgyzstan to justify the possibility of applying soviet or Russian technical regulations as applied to occupational safety standards. The article shows the vulnerability of this position from the legal point of view, which causes practical difficulties in the implementation of inspections by the state labor inspectorate, as well as in the conduct of public control over labor protection by trade unions in Kyrgyzstan. The paper studies the issues of legal support for the system of special assessment of working conditions in Russia and justifies the need to create an effective mechanism for assessing working conditions in Kyrgyzstan in accordance with international labor standards.

References:

1. Kyrgyz Republic Order of 20 July 2009, no 241 “O normativnykh pravovykh aktakh Kyrgyzskoy Respubliki” [On Regulatory Legal Acts of the Kyrgyz Republic]. http://online.zakon.kz/Document/?doc_id=30455249#pos=0;0&sel_link=1005501680
2. Kyrgyz Republic Order of 22 May 2004, no 67 “Ob osnovakh tekhnicheskogo regulirovaniya v Kyrgyzskoy Respublike” [On the Basics of Technical Regulation in the Kyrgyz Republic]. http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/1453
3. Kyrgyz Republic Order of 31 October 2014, no 149 “O vnesenii dopolneniyi izmeneniy v Zakon Kyrgyzskoy Respubliki ‘Ob okhrane truda’” [On Introducing Amendments and Additions to the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On Labor Protection”]. http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/205370?cl=ru-ru
4. Lyutov N. L. 2017 (in press). “Kommentariy k Spravke-obosnovaniyu, podgotovlennomu ministerstvom truda i sotsial'nogo razvitiya KR k proektu Zakona KR ‘O priznanii utrativshim silu Zakona Kyrgyzskoy Respubliki ‘Ob okhrane truda’’ i Prilozheniyu k Spravke-obosnovaniyu” [Commentary on the Justification Proof Prepared by the Ministry of Labor and Social Development of the Kyrgyz Republic to the Draft Law of the Kyrgyz Republic “On the Recognition of the Law of the Kyrgyz Republic ‘On Labor protection’” as Null and Void, and the Annex to the Justification Certificate]. Vestnik KNU im. Zh. Balasagyna, no 2.
5. ILO. 2015. “Okhrana truda v Kyrgyzskoy Respublike. Natsional'nyy obzor” [Labor Protection in the Kyrgyz Republic. National Review]. In: Gruppa tekhnicheskoy podderzhki po voprosam dostoynogo truda i Byuro MOT dlya stran Vostochnoy Evropy i Tsentral'noy Azii [Decent Work Technical Support Unit and ILO Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia]. Moscow: ILO. www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---europe/---ro.../wcms_306190.pdf
6. Kyrgyz Republic Government’s Decree of 12 January 2015 no 4 “O realizatsii proekta po regulyativnoy reforme ‘Sistemnyy analiz regulirovaniya’” [On the Implementation of the Project on Regulatory Reform “Systemic Analysis of Regulation”]. http://cbd.minjust.gov.kg/act/view/ru-ru/97249?cl=ru-ru 
7. Kyrgyz Republic Government’s Decree of 20 February 2012 no 136 “O Gosudarstvennoy inspektsii po ekologicheskoy i tekhnicheskoy bezopasnosti pri Pravitel'stve Kyrgyzskoy Respubliki” [On the State Inspectorate for Environmental and Technical Safety under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic]. Erkin Too, 23 February.
8. Ramankulov K. S. 2015. “Okhrana truda v Kyrgyzskoy Respublike: pravovaya organizatsiya i voprosy sovershenstvovaniya normativnogo regulirovaniya” [Labor Protection in the Kyrgyz Republic: Legal Organization and Issues of Improving Regulatory Regulation]. Proceedings of the conference “Okhrana truda: problemy pravovogo regulirovaniya” [Labor Protection: Problems of Legal Regulation] (Moscow, 25 April 2014), pp. 159-165. Edited by G. S. Skachkova. 
9. Tal L. S. 1913. Trudovoy dogovor: Tsivilisticheskoe issledovanie [Labor Contract: A Civic Study], vol. 1. Obshchie ucheniya [General Exercises]. Yaroslavl.
10. Federal Law of 28 December 2013 no 426-FL “O spetsial'noy otsenke usloviy truda” [On the Special Assessment of Working Conditions]. Sobranie zakonodatel'stva RF, 30 December, no 52 (part I), art. 6991.
11. Khnykin G. V. 2015. “Pravovye problemy organizatsii okhrany truda” [Legal Problems of the Organization of Labor Protection]. Proceedings of the conference “Okhrana truda: problemy pravovogo regulirovaniya” [Labor Protection: Problems of Legal Regulation] (Moscow, 25 April 2014), pp. 56-65.