Protection Against Violence in the Workplace: International Standards and Labor Legislation of Russia and Kazakhstan
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201205.020How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- labor legislation, mobbing, harassment, violence in the workplace, international labor standards
- Abstract
The issue of psychological violence in the workplace or any other place where the employee is obliged to be is currently becoming more acute and relevant, particularly with respect to numerous women reporting workplace harassment. The greatest difficulty for those suffering various forms of harassment is to prove the fact of psychological or physical violence, and the need to expose these private facts of life to the public eye. In both Russia and Kazakhstan, the society usually condemns victims of violence, and the legislation ignores them restricting itself to the existence of criminal law norms, which, however, are virtually not applied. The paper reveals not only the problems of legal regulation in the field of labor legislation, which does not protect employees against sexual harassment and other forms of violence at work. It shows practical solutions for Russia and Kazakhstan to establish transparent and effective standards for protection of employees, since these countries are bound by international conventions on discrimination and violence in the workplace.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Svetlana Golovina AU - Ilona Voitkovska PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/07 TI - Protection Against Violence in the Workplace: International Standards and Labor Legislation of Russia and Kazakhstan BT - Proceedings of the XIV European-Asian Law Congress "The Value of Law" (EAC-LAW 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 111 EP - 117 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201205.020 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201205.020 ID - Golovina2020 ER -