Open AccessLEGAL MECHANISM OF COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATIONS IN LATVIA
Author(s) -
Aleksandrs Baikovs
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
latgale national economy research/latgales tautsaimniecības pētījumi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2256-0955
pISSN - 1691-5828
DOI - 10.17770/lner2010vol1.2.1770
Subject(s) - negotiation , collective bargaining , collective agreement , flexibility (engineering) , law and economics , representation (politics) , business , political science , social dialogue , public relations , law , sociology , economics , management , politics
Collective negotiations are regarded as actions or process, leading to signing the collective agreement between organizations of employees and employers, and also governmental institutions. Collective negotiations are significant because they contribute to the strengthening not only of a contractual method, but also to the flexibility of legal regulation of labour relationships, the coordination of employees’ and employers’ interests, the strengthening of social justice in the labour sphere. In this study, for the first time in the labour law science of Latvia, constitutive features of legal regulation of collective negotiations are selected, the subject, principles, parties, procedure and levels of conducting negotiations are characterised, international protection of collective negotiations is studied, the questions of the right to conduct collective negotiations and its dependence on the representation level of employees, correlation and mutual dependence of collective negotiations, on the one hand, and strikes, consultation, and information on the other hand.