An efficient system of public administration in the labor sector is capable of a prompt, accurate and effective response to the present-day challenges, social demands and problematic issues, and is a prerequisite for recovery of our State’s economy and its successful participation in the European integration processes. The State policies should be formulated and implemented on the basis of universally recognized international legal standards in the relevant domain. For its part, efforts focused on assessing the State policies of Ukraine in the labor sector allow establishing the performance level of public institutions, and the degree to which they satisfy the needs of employees as well as employers. Taking this into account, Book One “General Provisions” of the new Labor Code of Ukraine should include a separate chapter “The State Labor Policies” comprising the following articles: “The Goal of the State Labor Policies”; “The Main Objectives of the State Labor Policies”; “The Principles of the State Labor Policies”; “The Priorities of the State Labor Policies”; “Ways of Implementing the Priorities of the State Labor Policies”; “Subjects of the State Labor Policies”; “Mechanisms of Implementation of the State Labor Policies”; “Funding Sources of the State Labor Policies.”

 The subject matter of labor law is less homogeneous than the subject matter of civil law since it comprises not only relations of a private nature but also, particularly, the relations with regard to supervision and control over compliance with labor legislation which have a pronounced public-law nature.

The new Labor Code of Ukraine should become the basic codified law on labor issues which would regulate the widest possible range of the relevant relations. After it is adopted, only those pieces of legislation should remain in force which, along with labor and related relations, regulate other social relations as well.

The contractual legal acts narrow down, detail and develop the general provisions of labor legislation with regard to the conditions of a certain employer. This is their main purpose. This method is flexible and dynamic and enables a prompt response to changes in the economic situation, with due regard for the specifics of development of separate regions, economy sectors, professions and this, in turn, determines the specifics of employment conditions for employees working in these regions, sectors, and in these professions. An increasing role which this type of legal regulation has on labor relations has an impact on the centralized legal regulation of labor. This is reflected in the increasing scope of social partnership and local regulations which expand and detail the provisions contained in the centralized act, thus entailing a decrease of the content of the latter.

List of legal documents

Legislation

1. Kodeks zakoniv pro pratsiu Ukrainy [The Code of Labor Laws of Ukraine]: zatverdzheno Zakonom URSR [Approved by the Law of the UkSSR] vid 10 hrudnia 1971 r. № 322-VIII. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady URSR (Dodatok). 1971. № 50. St. 375 (in Ukrainian).

2. Pro kolektyvni dohovory i uhody [On Collective Contracts and Agreements]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 1 lypnia 1993 r. № 3356-XII. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 1993. № 36. St. 361 (in Ukrainian).

3. Pro okhoronu pratsi [On Labor Protection]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 14 zhovtnia 1992 r. № 2694-XII. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 1992. № 49. St. 668 (in Ukrainian).

4. Pro poriadok vyrishennia kolektyvnykh trudovykh sporiv (konfliktiv) [On the Procedure for Resolution of Collective Labor Disputes (Conflicts)]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 3 bereznia 1998 r. № 137/98-VR. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 1998. № 34. St. 227 (in Ukrainian).

5. Pro profesiini spilky, yikh prava ta harantii diialnosti [On Trade Unions, Their Rights and Guarantees of Operation]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 15 veresnia 1999 r. № 1045-XIV. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 1999. № 45. St. 397 (in Ukrainian).

 6. Pro profesiinyi rozvytok pratsivnykiv [On Professional Development of Employees]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 12 sichnia 2012 r. № 4312-VI. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 2012. № 39. St. 462 (in Ukrainian).

7. Pro sotsialnyi dialoh v Ukraini [On Social Dialogue in Ukraine]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 23 hrudnia 2010 r. № 2862-VI. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 2011. № 28. St. 255 (in Ukrainian).

8. Pro vnesennia do Kodeksu zakoniv pro pratsiu Ukrainskoi RSR zmin i dopovnen, poviazanykh z perebudovoiu upravlinnia ekonomikoiu [On Changes and Amendments to the Code of Labor Laws of the Ukrainian SSR with Regard to Reorganization of Economy Management]: ukaz Prezydii Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainskoi RSR [Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Ukrainian SSR] vid 27 travnia 1988 r. № 5938-XI <https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/5938-11> (accessed: 14.02.2019) (in Ukrainian).

9. Pro zainiatist naselennia [On Employment of the Population]: Zakon Ukrainy [the Law of Ukraine] vid 5 lypnia 2012 r. № 5067-VI. Vidomosti Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy. 2013. № 24. St. 243 (in Ukrainian).

10. Proekt Trudovoho kodeksu Ukrainy [The Draft Labor Code of Ukraine] (reiestratsiinyi № 1658, tekst doopratsovanyi vid 24 lypnia 2017 r.) <http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/ zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=532213> (accessed: 14.02.2019) (in Ukrainian). Bibliography Authored books 11. Atamanchuk H, Teoryya hosudarstvennoho upravlenyya [Theory of State Management] (Omeha-L 2010) (in Russian). 12. Yaroshenko O, Teoretychni ta praktychni problemy dzherel trudovoho prava Ukrainy [Theoretical and Practical Issues of Labor Law Sources in Ukraine] (SPD FO Vapnyarchuk N M 2006) (in Ukrainian).

Edited books

13. Kostiuk V, ‘Kodyfikatsiia trudovoho zakonodavstva u konteksti prav osib z invalidnistiu: problemy, novatsii ta perspektyvy’ [‘Codification of Labor Legislation in the Context of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Issues, Innovations and Prospects’] v Aktualni problemy sotsialnoho prava: naukovo-praktychnyi posibnyk [Topical Issues of Social Law: Scientific and Practical Guide], vyp 2 (2016) 87-92. 14. Yaroshenko O (nauk red), Derzhava ta yii orhany yak sub’iekty trudovoho prava: teoretyko-prykladnyi narys [The State and Its Bodies as Subjects of Labor Law: Theoretical and Application Essay] (Pravo 2014) (in Ukrainian).

Journal articles

15. Yaroshenko O, ‘Deiaki pytannia systemy dzherel trudovoho prava Ukrainy’ [‘Some Issues of the System of Labor Law Sources of Ukraine’] (2006) 77 Problemy zakonnosti 43-8 (in Ukrainian).

16. – –, ‘Do pytannia pro mistse maibutnoho Trudovoho kodeksu Ukrainy v systemi dzherel trudovoho prava’ [‘More on the Place of the Future Labor Code of Ukraine in the System of Labor Law Sources’] (2017) 6 Pravo Ukrainy 64-71 (in Ukrainian).

17. – –, ‘Pro neobkhidnist kodyfikatsii trudovoho zakonodavstva Ukrainy’ [‘On the Need to Codify the Labor Legislation of Ukraine’] [2004] 1(36) Visnyk Akademii pravnychykh nauk Ukrainy 38-44 (in Ukrainian).

18. – –, ‘Systema pravovykh aktiv pro pratsiu’ [‘System of Legal Acts on Labor’] [2002] 2(13) Aktualni problemy derzhavnoho upravlinnia 265-7 (in Ukrainian).

Dissertation

19. Yaroshenko O, ‘Dzherela trudovoho prava Ukrainy’ [‘Sources of Labor Law of Ukraine’] (dys d-ra yuryd nauk, Nats yuryd akad Ukrainy im Ya Mudroho 2007) (in Ukrainian).

20. Zhyhalkin I, ‘Systema pryntsypiv trudovoho prava v umovakh formuvannia novoi pravovoi doktryny Ukrainy’ [‘The System of Labor Law Principles in the Context of Formulating a New Legal Doctrine of Ukraine’] (dys d-ra yuryd nauk, Skhidnoukrain nats un-t im Volodymyra Dalia 2016) (in Ukrainian).