To the question of participation-union (alternate) employee representatives in social partnership in the framework, of small business

Social partnership in modern conditions of development of employment legislation and the trend towards democratization of social relations can be implemented fully at the local level. According to the author, currently topical question of the participation in this process is not so much trade unions and their associations, but other alternative employee representatives. The article focuses on the General meeting of employees as a form of representation of workers, their self-organization, typical (and necessary) in the first place for groups with a small number of employees, especially small and micro-businesses. Analyzes the provisions of Chapter 48.1 of TK of the Russian Federation in the part of the rights of the employer small businesses (microenterprises) the sole right to elect the procedure of regulation of labor relations, without the adoption of local normative acts. It is proved that this limits the right of employees to participate in available forms of social partnership. In connection with this proposed supplementing Chapter provisions that the decision on the method of legal regulation (employment contract or by collective agreement, local normative acts) shall take into account the views of employees, which can be expressed as at the General meeting of workers and through their elected representatives.