Constitutional Axiology of Freedom of Labor
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Constitutional Axiology of Freedom of Labor
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Mikhail Sagandykov 
Occupation: Head of the Department of Theory of State and Law, Labor Law, Law Institute
Affiliation: South Ural State University (National Research University)
Address: Chelyabinsk, Russia
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28-41
Abstract

The axiological study of freedom of labor is aimed at identifying the essence and meaning of the relevant constitutional provisions, as well as their place in the system of constitutional and legal prescriptions. Freedom of labor does not have a clear expression in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, and therefore it is understood in science and law enforcement practice as a principle, as a human right and as a natural good. At the same time, the value content of freedom of labor in constitutional-legal science and in the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation is not defined.

The purpose of the study is to determine the normative and semantic content of the constitutional value of freedom of labor. To achieve this goal, it is necessary to solve a number of tasks: to define the concept of constitutional values; to correlate the concept of the constitutional value of freedom of labor with various constitutional and legal forms; to identify the content of the constitutional value of freedom of labor, based on the analysis of various constitutional provisions and materials of the practice of the Russian Constitutional Court.

Methods: general scientific methods of analysis and synthesis, system approach; special-legal methods: axiological, formal-legal, comparative-legal, historical-legal.

Research results and conclusions: the freedom of labor in the constitutional-value dimension is a complex, multidimensional concept represented in the text of the Constitution of the Russian Federation by a number of normative prescriptions. The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation endows freedom of labor with the quality of constitutional value, but situationally gives it different content depending on the practical context. The fundamental content of the constitutional value of freedom of labor is that it is an element of the social state, and therefore it is associated not only with individual freedom, but also with social solidarity and justice. As such, freedom of labor is associated not so much with the state-recognized possibility of a citizen to work or not to work, but with the ability to choose a type of activity and profession taking into account internal needs, in the absence of any forms of coercion and on the basis of compliance with the requirements of decent work guaranteed by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and current legislation.

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constitutional axiology, constitutional value, freedom of labor, constitutional principle, social state, decent work
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27.02.2024
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