The Legal Nature of Workplace Disputes in Civil Service

Review. Among the subjects of relations connected with the arrival of the civil service, its passage and differences may arise due to different understanding of their subjective rights, obligations and legal interests, as well as how to implement them. Having failed to be settled by the disputants, such disagreements are considered by competent authorities through the statutory procedures and eventually become official disputes. In the literature on administrative law a workplace dispute is seen as a type of administrative legal dispute. However, this approach raises serious doubts, as workplace disputes are not related to the exercise of public authority, public functions within its managerial competence, and with the implementation of them as the subject of official authority for the management of labour relations of public servants and the formation of a workforce to ensure their own activities. It is proved that subjective composition of workplace disputes, their subject, as well as the order of their settlement do not differ essentially from those of labor disputes, so there is no reason to consider workplace disputes as an independent kind of legal disputes. It is noted that the legislative definition of individual workplace dispute covers only workplace disputes on the application of laws, other regulatory legal acts on civil service and service contract, i.e. "disputes on the law", and does not include disagreements over the implementation of the legitimate interests of civil servants, which can be met when establishing new or amend existing conditions of service contract, i.e. "disputes of interest", which does not exclude the possibility of this kind of controversy. As for the collective workplace disputes, applicable law on civil service includes no concept of a "collective workplace dispute ", the law on the civil service do not have an explicit prohibition for such kind of disputes in the civil service.

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