CURRENT CONSTRAINS OF UZBEKISTAN LABOR LAW

Abstract

Over the years Uzbekistan was one of the soviet socialistic republics, however, after collapse of USSR Uzbekistan became independent and nominated own development module. During the economic transition new types of non-regular workers emerged in labor market such as parttimers, temporary workers and so forth. However, labor law did not update the provisions to keep up with the developing economy. Currently, labor law cannot provide labor protection for non-regular workers. Current Labor Code still includes former Soviet Union’s labor regulation effecting to employment. Therefore, this thesis demonstrates the weaknesses of chapter IV, paragraph 2 “Labor contracting” of Uzbekistan labor code of 1995, in order to expand formal contracts to part-time and temporary workers, and facilitate flexibility of labor contractual relations according to requirements of labor market. Current Labor Code does not cover parttime and temporary worker’s issues. Second, the hypothesis outlines the current labor practices on part-time workers as well as the drawbacks of labor law. Finally, by comparative analyses between Uzbek labor law approaches to propose the update the Uzbek labor law part-time and temporary contracts, which can promote transformation from informal to formal job creation and stimulate individuals to enter into the formal labor market.