Psychosocial Risks in Russia
Phycosocial risks in Russia
Conducted by Ekaterina Reznikova
2013
Introduction 1. Trade unionism * General trends * Most recent trends of the Russian labour movement (2008-2012) * Trade union positions
3.Psychosocial risks: reflection of society mood
4. Comparison of “stress” definition 5.Legal protection of psychosocial occupational risks * Labour law * Civil law * Criminal law 6.Practice 7.Conclusions 8. Appendix 1 - interview
Introduction
Unions are an integral part of the socio-political system of the society, one of the most important institution that regulates the relationship between employers and employees. It is a very reasonable statement for countries of former Soviet Union block, particularly for Russia, where the majority of employees feel themselves victims of the new capitalist order to the certain extent due to the country's integration into the global economy. Modern Russian labour legislation that meets market realities, provides only the bare minimum of social and labour guarantees and aims of employers and employees to ensure that labour relations are based on a contractual basis. Thus, the role of trade unions as the authorized representative of employees increases substantially.
The unions are still the non-governmental organization with the very high number of membership which emcompass approximately 30 million members within Russia. This is about 45% of total employment in economic activities and working in enterprises of all forms of ownership.
In Soviet times the right to safe working conditions traditionally associated primarily with the technical side of occupational safety and often is limited to compliance with safety regulations and health regulations. However, in the 70s of the XX century labour lawyer and scholar Tsepin A.I. wrote about the need to overcome the narrow approach of the determination of working conditions, to expand the employee's right to safe
Conducted by Ekaterina Reznikova
2013
Introduction 1. Trade unionism * General trends * Most recent trends of the Russian labour movement (2008-2012) * Trade union positions
3.Psychosocial risks: reflection of society mood
4. Comparison of “stress” definition 5.Legal protection of psychosocial occupational risks * Labour law * Civil law * Criminal law 6.Practice 7.Conclusions 8. Appendix 1 - interview
Introduction
Unions are an integral part of the socio-political system of the society, one of the most important institution that regulates the relationship between employers and employees. It is a very reasonable statement for countries of former Soviet Union block, particularly for Russia, where the majority of employees feel themselves victims of the new capitalist order to the certain extent due to the country's integration into the global economy. Modern Russian labour legislation that meets market realities, provides only the bare minimum of social and labour guarantees and aims of employers and employees to ensure that labour relations are based on a contractual basis. Thus, the role of trade unions as the authorized representative of employees increases substantially.
The unions are still the non-governmental organization with the very high number of membership which emcompass approximately 30 million members within Russia. This is about 45% of total employment in economic activities and working in enterprises of all forms of ownership.
In Soviet times the right to safe working conditions traditionally associated primarily with the technical side of occupational safety and often is limited to compliance with safety regulations and health regulations. However, in the 70s of the XX century labour lawyer and scholar Tsepin A.I. wrote about the need to overcome the narrow approach of the determination of working conditions, to expand the employee's right to safe