UNIVERSITY OF RUSE "ANGEL KANCHEV"
UNION OF SCIENTISTS - RUSE

Proceedings 2025
Faculty of Law StudiesBook 7.1 · Law Sciences

SAT-2B.313-1-L-11

NEW CHALLENGES TO THE SETTLEMENT OF OLLECTIVE LABOR DISPUTES

Language: BGPages: 109-114

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Assoc. prof. Andrey Aleksandrov, PhD

Institute of State and Law Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Abstract

Collective labor disputes were first legally regulated in our country with the Law on the Settlement of Collective Labor Disputes in 1990. The historical merit of this law lies in its concept that the dispute should be “settled”, not “resolved”. “Settlement” is understood as reaching an agreement between the disputing parties, and “resolution” is the provision of a mandatory response to the disputed issues by a judicial or other body. Against the backdrop of some social unrest and the sharp reactions to them in recent months, the regulation of the Law on the Settlement of Collective Labor Disputes has once again attracted public attention. The purpose of the study is to substantiate that any “civil disobedience”, blockades, etc. have nothing to do with the strike as a legally regulated method for protecting the collective interests of employees. Against the background of the "pathology" in the application of the law, it is appropriate to re-analyze the current legal framework and what its implementation should be in order to protect the legal rights and interests of all parties affected by the collective labor dispute..

Keywords

Collective labor dispute, strike, civil disobedience