Legal Regulation of Mobbing Manifestations: Russian Legal Realities and World Experience

Abstract

The objective of the article is to determine the level of reflection of mobbing in the legislation of countries, the attitude of the international community to this problem. Materials from legal acts, documents, and reports have been collected and summarized, which in turn has confirmed that on the world scene the issue of psychological violence in the workplace is important and has increasingly been on the agenda. Mobbing is a phenomenon occurring inside a company staff which requires special attention because it represents a threat to human values and rights recognized by society at large. In the text of the publication it is mentioned that there is a tendency to legalize the process of mobbing in the world in order to be able to legally protect the dignity of an employee, his / her professional safety and health. The article considers the principal acts regulating the protection against mobbing on a worldwide level. Russian legislation has also been reviewed in terms of anti-mobbing provisions. As it has been found out, some countries have already taken the first steps to establish and protect the employee’s right to a psychological terror-free working environment, namely installation of a legal mechanism and development of judicial practice. However, Russia has not been included in the list of such countries. This problem requires the adoption of legal measures, as legal intervention would reduce the number of cases of arbitrary treatment of a particular person (or group) through psychological terror by the participants of labor relations such as: management, colleagues, subordinates.