Challenges – 2012. What explanations the employers await from the Supreme Court

Anna Kotova-Smolenskaya, Associate Partner at the Law Firm "YUST", Advocate, Doctor at Law,
Tatiana Samarina, Senior Lawyer at the Law Firm "YUST", Doctor at Law

The year 2011 was rich in events in the employment law sphere: celebrated dismissions, provocative initiatives, legal novelties. Many controversies, unsettled until then, caused several draft laws to be developed and adopted. The main intrigue of the year – whether or not loan labour will be prohibited – stayed, but the employers hope for its settlement.

An important event of the year past is the SCRF’s answer to the question, which used to haunt practically every Russian employer: whether the State Labour Inspection has the right to restore a fired employee to his workplace and to revoke an imposed disciplinary punishment.

However, many collisions and legal gaps still exist, which the employers have to face at settling labour disputes and on which the courts have different opinions. The readers may learn from the article, which of the existing controversies may be resolved by explanations of the Board of the SCRF, which are obligatory for the courts.

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“Labour Disputes” magazine website: http://www.tspor.ru/