This paper assesses the recent progress and future direction of labor policy in the European Community, now the European Union. The authors show that most of the mandates foreshadowed under the December 1989 Community Social Charter have now been enacted into law. They analyze the possible costs, as well as the benefits, of these firstphase mandates and show the link between these adjustment costs and the Community's policy of providing subsidies to its poorer member states. They also demonstrate how the new Treaty on European Union, agreed to at Maastricht in December 1991, has increased the scope for Community-level labor market regulation.
In modern conditions, more and more attention of regional authorities is focused on the effective use of methods and tools for regulating the labor market. The article considers the features of the formation and implementation of personnel policy at the Federal and regional levels. The authors determine the relationship between the directions of regional personnel policy implementation and factors of labor market development in the region. Special attention is paid to the study of regional labor market problems, analysis of the situation on the labor market of the Orenburg region, as well as evaluating the effectiveness of a number of regional measures in the field of labor market regulation. In conclusion, priority directions for the implementation of regional human resources policy aimed at the formation and development of the region's human resources potential are formulated.
Online Job Portals: the Future of Labor Market Regulation in the Republic of Belarus