Clifford Chance
Overview of Russian Employment Law
24 November 2011
From a Russian law perspective, an employment relationship is a contractual relationship based on an agreement between a legal entity or individual entrepreneur (the "employer") and an individual (the "employee") under which the employee undertakes to personally perform the work in the relevant professional or hierarchical capacity and observe the employer's internal policies and procedures relating to the organisation of work, and the employer undertakes to provide the appropriate working conditions for the employee and remunerate the employee for the work done.
Russian employment law consists mainly of the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation of 12 December 1993 (the "Constitution") and the Labour Code of the Russian Federation of 30 December 2001 (the "Labour Code"). The Constitution sets out the fundamental principles governing employment relations in Russia. The Labour Code contains detailed provisions governing all aspects of employment relations in Russia, including, among other things, collective bargaining, requirements applicable to the form and substance of an employment contract, employee remuneration, working time and holidays, general principles of occupational safety rules etc.
