The role of residents of the free port of Vladivostok in implementation of international labor standards

• Goryan E.V.

  Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
  Vladivostok. Russia

The subject of the study is the enforcement of international labor standards at the enterprises of the free port of Vladivostok in the circumstances of negative population growth; the growth of migratory flows from the countries of Central Asia, China and Korea, and the corresponding increase of labor migrants at enterprises of the residents of the free port of Vladivostok; incomplete ratification of international labor standards and international standards for the protection of indigenous peoples’ rights by Russian Federation; the establishment of a special regime for the free port of Vladivostok in the territories of traditional habitat and nature management of the indigenous peoples of the Far East.

The purpose of the study is to determine the role of the residents of the free port of Vladivostok in the national legal mechanism for ensuring international labor standards. In order to obtain the most reliable scientific results, a number of general scientific (system-structural, formal-logical and hermeneutical methods) and special legal methods of cognition (comparative legal and formal-legal methods) were used. The use of these methods was complex. The results of the study are provisions on the need to include residents of the free port of Vladivostok in the system of joint responsibility of participants in the global supply chain and using one of the available models: a model of individual responsibility or a model of shared responsibility of companies to employees in the enterprise.

The obtained results can be used for qualitative improvements of institutional and regulatory and socio-economic conditions for the development of the Far East, as well as for certain zones with a special economic regime of functioning. The author came to conclusions about the difficulties that exist in the way of ratification and further implementation of international labor standards: corruption, imperfect legal and institutional mechanisms, the lack of political will to resolve problems. The author sees the solution to the existing problems in the active participation of resident companies in securing the rights of workers in their enterprises located in special economic zones.

Keywords: Vladivostok free port, migration, international labor standards, indigenous peoples, Corruption, global supply chain, the concept of company’s individual responsibility, the concept of companies’ shared responsibility.