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Collective actors as representatives of workers in a social partnership: CIS countries experience
Published: 15 May 2015
Purpose. Consideration of legal status of a general meeting of employees as a collective subject of workers, comparing examples of legislation in CIS countries. Methods. The study is based on a comparison of legislation on workers' representatives, analysis of examples of legislative registration. Results and practical value. The author concludes on the importance of a general meeting of employees in an organization when discussing topical issues associated with the ongoing activities of the organization. Strengthening the authority, detailing the legal status in the law of the general meeting of workers will have an impact on the development of democracy in society. The collective entity is considered by the author as the most acceptable form of participation of employees in the social partnership in a small number of organizations and the possibility of holding the general meeting of employees in any organization. Scientific novelty. Along with well-known actors in labor relations, the author emphasizes an alternative representative of workers as a general meeting of employees. It is expected that such a representative body of the most adapted for employers of small business, where trade union organizations are not formed.
