Alternative extrajudicial forms of worker's labour rights protection: challenges and prospects

The author considers extrajudicial forms of protection of the employee's labor rights, not provided for in Art. 352 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. Analyzing the title of the article and its content, the author concludes that the title of the article does not correspond to its content, and therefore a change in the title of the article is proposed. Analyzing such a form of protection of the employee's labor rights as direct negotiations with the employer, the author draws attention to gaps in the legislation regarding the timing of their implementation and the legal mechanism for fixing them, in this regard, proposals are made to supplement the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. As the main reason for the low number of referrals to mediation in individual labor disputes, the author identifies her compensation for the employee, and therefore proposes to exempt the employee from the costs of paying for the mediation procedure. The article also considers the prospects for using the “complex” as a form of protection of the employee's labor rights.