Legal aspects of labour protection in the current context
Under Russian labour legislation, the right of each employee to labour protection, working conditions that comply with safety and hygiene requirements is among the most important principles of legal regulation of employment relations. Improving the efficiency of labour protection and further improvement of the management in that sphere will contribute to further improvement of labour conditions and labour protection in workplaces. In the article, a comprehensive survey concerning the labour protection in Russia at the present stage was undertaken by the author. The author considered some features of the organization of labour protection and providing safe working conditions by an employer. Analysis of the law enforcement practice in the sphere of labour protection is carried out. Problems of legal regulation of labour protection were addressed, options of solving such problems were also proposed. The author comes to the conclusion that the analysis and justification of theoretical and legal problems in the sphere of labour protection would support improvement of labour protection legislation and remove apparent contradictions and gaps that still exist in this field.