Group of employees as an independent subject of labor relations

In the current labor legislation practically there are no rules governing relations with industrial groups of employees. However, the association of workers into groups, due to the common social and labor interests, widespread during the Soviet period, has not lost its relevance even today, on the contrary, in modern conditions there is a tendency to strengthen collective beginnings in the process of production activities. 

The purpose of the study: determining the place of a group of workers in the system of modern subjects of labour law. 

Tasks: to study groups of workers as subjects of labor law in Russia and abroad, to study forms that accept groups of workers in traditional and atypical labor relations, to determine the status of modern industrial groups, proposals to improve labour legislation with regard to the legal regulation of labour relations with groups of workers. 

In the process of work such research methods as the method of scientific analysis, as well as formallogical, system-structural, technical-legal methods and comparative methods were used. 

Results: analysis of selected atypical forms of employment (various forms of joint work and temporary management)as well as the analysis of new approaches to the management of independent work leads to the conclusion that the issue of regulation of the legal status of groups of production associations of employees is being updated. The author notes the similarity of the structure and organization of such entities with the group forms of production activities known to Soviet legislation.

Conclusions. It is concluded that it is necessary to legally define groups of workers as subjects of labor legislation, to determine the place of such subjects in the system of subjects of labor relations, as well as to regulate both intra-group and external relations of the group, including the employer.

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