LABOR LEGISLATION AS A TOOL FOR ENSURING MIGRATION SAFETY
Authors: ZAITCEVA LARISA V. , LUZINA TATYANA V. 
Published: December 2019

The labor legislation may have an impact on the level of migration safety in the country. On the one hand, it provides conditions for improvement of the labor force mobility domestically through the establishment of guarantees and compensations due to relocation to another region. On the other hand, the labor legislation ensures control over legal external labor migration and protects internal labor market against illegal migrants and social damping in respect of labor conditions through the establishment of special diferentiation of legal regulation of labor of foreign citizens and individuals without citizenship.Russia demonstrates a traditionally low level of internal labor mobility, the fact that results in preservation of localization of regional labor markets and prevents from efficient usage of labor force. The main challenges in this area are the matters related to provision of housing for displaced persons which is beyond the scope of regulation by the labor legislation.The legal instruments ensuring the exercise of temporary internal labor mi gra-tion are associated with such forms of labor organization as work on a rotational basis, seasonal work, and outstaffing. Remote working can be roughly attributed to such forms.In the Russian Federation citizens still face an employment problem if they do not have registration at their place of residence. The regulations of the labor legislation on prohibition of discrimination, inter alia, based upon place of residence, availability or lack of registration at one’s place of residence as well as regulations on administrative liability for the respective acts serve as sufficient legal remedies against illegal refusal to recruit. The problems of efficiency of such remedies are to a large extent linked to procedural aspects — dissemination of general rules for the shared burden of proof on disputes on discrimination in labor sector.The issues of external migration are governed primarily by the standards of ad mi nistrative law. The labor legislation regulates labor relationships with the participation of foreign citizens and individuals without citizenship and establishes features for regulation of their labor not forming discrimination. Along with this, there are problems to be resolved. The following can be identified. The regulations of the Labor Code of RF governing features for temporary transfer of foreign employees and the related additional grounds for termination of labor contract bring instability into such labor relationships and provide a context for abuses on the part of employer. Regardless the fact that the legislation doesn’t prohibit remote working for foreign citizens, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of RF considers it impossible to conclude an employment contract on remote working with a foreign employee residing abroad. Moreover, the Russian legislation doesn’t provide for a possibility to conclude an employment contact in the languages of both parties as stipulated in Guidelines No.86 of the International Labor Organization "On migrant workers" (revised in 1949).It is necessary to continue improving the labor legislation for the purposes of facilitating internal labor mobility, protecting employees against discrimination and malpractices of socio-labor damping.