Protection of Workers’ Rights to Timely and Full Payroll

The peculiarity of the violation of the right to full and timely payment of wages is that it, as a rule, is violated simultaneously with respect to all of the employees of one employer. It is concluded that the restoration of the rights of individual workers in such cases entails a violation of the principles of equality of opportunity and equal pay for work of equal value. In view of the objective specificity of the right to timely and full payment of wages, it is proposed to recognize the right to protection in the event of its violation in the same way by one employer not only for each worker, but also for the group of workers as a whole. It has been proved that wage collection disputes meet the conditions for classifying disputes as group claims formulated in legal doctrine, foreign practice and draft laws. In this regard, it is proposed to include such disputes in the list of categories of cases that may be considered in the framework of the procedure for protecting the rights of a group of persons. The expediency of recognizing the right to suspend work as self-defense in the event of a wage payment delay of at least one day has been proved. The author analyzes the court practice on consideration of disputes on the recovery of wages paid in a different amount than established by a written labor contract, and reveals the impossibility of protecting the rights of workers to the full payroll. To solve this problem, it is proposed to introduce into labor legislation the rules on recognition simulated conditions of an employment contract for setting wages in a smaller amount than the parties actually agreed as inadmissible.

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