THE FACTORY LEGISLATION ON WORKING TIME
The emergence of legal regulations of working time in the Russian Empire was a result of changes in the socioeconomic relations in society. The adoption of laws on timing of the work reflected the direction of the state policy of Russia towards capitalism. The legislator differentiated approaches the regulations on working time for certain categories of workers and industries, gives the norms formally-defined character and provides them with the measures of state coercion. This article examines basic legal acts concerning working time components of factory legislation of Russia in the XIX century, analyzed the practice of their application, compared to the existing regulations with the standards of the legislation of European states.
Keywords: the duration of working time, working day, the factory legislation
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Issue: 8, 2014
Series of issue: Issue 8
Rubric: LAW
Pages: 99 — 101
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