Release:
2021, Vol. 7. № 2 (26)About the author:
Oksana A. Kursova, Cand. Sci. (Jur.), Associate Professor, Department of Labor Law and Entrepreneurship, University of Tyumen; o.a.kursova@utmn.ru; ORCID: 0000-0001-9170-1678Abstract:
The widespread prevalence of precarious employment is due to modern trends in the development of the market economy and information technology. In general, precarious work in modern literature is considered as a negative phenomenon that contributes to the precarization of employment. Precarious work is extremely heterogeneous; a single standard of legal regulation is practically not applicable to these relations, which are very different in terms of signs and characteristics. That is why only the concept transformation of labor relations in order to cover the labor law regulation sphere of various relations related to precarious employment will not improve the situation. This means that it is necessary to consider various ways of legal regulation of precarious work in order to provide all employed with the necessary level of social protection. This idea is consistently revealed in the proposed work. To substantiate this idea, this paper provides an analysis of international approaches and various domestic decisions regarding the regulation of precarious work. Various methods study of precarious employment legal regulation was carried out in order to determine various options for bringing precarious employment to a certain social standard, which presupposes the precarization prevention of employment. The main research methods are the comparative method and the method of expert assessments. As a result, it was concluded that the strategy of the International Labor Organization, the essence of which is to search for legal solutions to extend social protection to all employed without exception, is the optimal universal solution to the problem. The only question is how this discourse should be practically implemented in different legal systems.
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