About international and foreign legal regulation of social partnership in the public service

Introduction: It explores issues of international legal regulation of relations of social partnership in public service (about Convention ILO №151). The specificity of the collective labour (service) relations at the international level in foreign States (Germany, Bulgaria, Canada (Edmonton), Belarus) is raised. Objective: it identifies the specifics of legal regulation of social partnership in the public service in many countries in Europe, North America and CIS countries. Methods: General methods of scientific researches (dialectical, metaphysical); scientific research methods (analysis, synthesis, system, method); private methods (historical, comparative, formal legal). Results: it identified some particularities of legal regulation of relations of social partnership in the public service in many countries in Europe, North America and CIS countries. Conclusions: In analyzing international and foreign experience of social partnership in public service, should be noted: first, the effect of acts of social partnership is usually, selective, i.e. they apply only to members of a trade Union, or of those who claim the so-called “solidarity fee”; second, the international labour standards regulate primarily the civil service and encourage the assignment of the police service to the civil service, and not to any other; thirdly, collective agreements have spread not only on workers but also on the police; fourth, often the interests of employers in social partnership relations are the municipalities, really with financial resources to stimulate labour of civil servants; fifth, collective agreements often contain provisions envisaging direct regulation of employment, including the police.