Representatives of an Individual Employer (Natural Person): Gaps and Contradictions of Legal Regulation

Review. The application of the labour legislation of legal structures and legal approaches, peculiar to the civil law, leads to inefficient laws. An example of such undue reception may be certain provisions of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation on the participation of legitimate representatives of employers from among individuals with defects of the will. Representation in labor law exists as a separate legal phenomenon other than senior representation in its understanding. The objective of the representative of an employer - physical person from among minors and from those with limited capacity, on the one hand, by his actions is to authorize the establishment of labour relations with them (create required by law legal fact), on the other hand, to protect their rights and legitimate interests as much as possible. Part 9 art. 20 of the Labour Code provides for the right of the lawful representatives of the incapable citizens to conclude employment contracts with employees on their behalf for the purpose of personal service of these individuals and to help them in the household. This legal construction seems unsustainable and inefficient. It does not take into account the private-public nature of labour relations, as well as the presence of the parties to the labour rights and responsibilities as a property and non-property property. Rules on the additional responsibility of employers-individuals with defects of the will due to insufficient legal certainty also require further improvement. In particular, the issues of determining the maximum period of delayed salary payments, after which payment requirements should be addressed to the representative. Analyzing the legal norms of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation concerning the credentials of the representatives of employers from among individuals with defects of the will, it must be concluded that the representative in some cases replaces a represented person and in some cases joins him as a special subject, helping in the realization of labour rights and their protection, as well as providing guarantees of workers' labour rights of the specified employers.

labour legislation, guarantees, labor rights, employer, an individual, a legal representative (guardian, trustee), labor legal relations, gaps, inconsistencies

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