THE SOCIAL CONSTITUTION FOR EUROPE AND RUSSIA: CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL RESEARCH OF THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL CHARTER

The article is concerned with the problems of enforcement of the European Social Charter in the Russian Federation and other countries and the ways of their solution. The author sets the following tasks: to analyse from a position of the modern theory of constitutional law law-enforcement practice of implementation of the European Social Charter in Russia and other countries; to investigate the international legal acts and the national legislation for identification of the arising collisions in the field of provision and protection of human rights; to reveal the most complex problems arising in legal practice of implementation of international law and to offer effective mechanisms for their solution. The research methods include comparison, analysis and synthesis. The novelty of the study lies in the author’s suggestions concerning the use of standards of the European Social Charter in law-enforcement practice of the Russian Federation and other countries. New statistical data on the negative phenomena in legal life of the states have been summarized and legal mechanisms of their overcoming have been offered. The practical value of the research consists in the author’s proposals for inclusion of the standards of the European Social Charter into the legislation of Russia and their enforcement. It is concluded that the European Social Charter presents itself a difficult legal document demanding considerable financial resources for realization; for the Russian state it is necessary to continue the process of ratification of the specified document paying special attention to Article 31 on the right to housing. The author suggests developing new legal standards to include some concepts as «employment», «compensation», «motherhood and childhood protection», «fight against poverty» in the international documents and the regulations of the Russian Federation.

European social Charter, ratification and its consequences, labour, employment, wages, protection of motherhood and childhood, fight against poverty

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