Sources of labor law

Sources of labor law include legal acts that contain the norms of labor law, regulate the duties and rights of the parties to labor relations, as well as other relations related to them directly.

Sources of labor law are legal normative acts that are adopted by state authorities and local self-government bodies, they include normative, local acts and agreements that are concluded during labor relations.

Characteristics of sources of labor law is based on the allocation of their characteristics, focusing on the specific regulation of labor relations.

According to the law, the sources of labor law are subdivided into regional and federal ones.

Sources of labor law can be classified :.
1. In terms of importance: by-laws and laws;
2. According to the industry system: sources of the Special and General part;
3. By the form of the act: decrees, laws, conventions, declarations, etc .;
4. On the bodies that adopted these acts;

5. In terms of scope: local, territorial, local, interbranch, interbranch, regional, federal, multi- and two-sided, international;
6. At the addressee, they apply to all employees or to their individual categories;
7. By degree of generalization: current, complex, codified.

Under the rules of law understand generally binding rules, sanctioned or established by the state, while secured by state coercive force. They are reflected in the relevant legal regulations and other sources of law.

The norms of labor law regulate labor relations. They generate

Legal relationship, if the subjects conclude a legal act, which is the basis for the emergence of employment relations.

This is an employment contract between the employer and the employee.

Labor relations are the main element of the system, determining the nature of other legal relations, related to them, acting as derivatives of them and playing a service role in relation to them.

Consequently, the relations that are regulated by labor law are quite

Can be viewed in the complex as a system of legal relationships that

United by a common goal. In this case, each legal relationship is an element of the system.

Characteristics of sources of labor law:

Among the sources of labor law, the legal normative act occupies the main position, since it is the most important regulator of social relations in the labor sphere. This is determined by qualitative diversity and quantitative superiority over other sources. And also by the fact that normative acts regulate practically all social relations that are part of the labor law.

Legal regulations are quite diverse, so they are classified for various reasons. The general division is made to acts that are taken by state authorities, and acts that are taken by other entities with the permission of the state.

Acts that are adopted by the state are divided into by-laws and laws.
Among the laws it is necessary to single out the Basic Law of the Russian Federation - the Constitution of the Russian Federation, constitutional laws of the federal level, the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and other federal laws that contain the laws of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and labor law norms.

The term "labor legislation" in the strict sense is applicable only to laws.
Normative by-laws differ in the legal force they possess, and in their place occupied in the source system. The highest legal force of the decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, then - the decrees of the Government of the Russian Federation, acts of federal bodies, decrees, resolutions, the provisions of the subjects of the Russian Federation (by-laws), acts adopted by local government.

Legal regulations adopted by the employer are called local acts. The Labor Code fixes the right of the employer to adopt such acts, and their place in the whole complex of sources is also determined.

Then comes the normative contract, which is the source of the labor law.