THE MECHANISM FOR CALCULATION OF PAYMENT FOR EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT TERMINATION AN THE INITIATIVE OF THE EMPLOYEE – A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE
To study the issue of establishing a mechanism for calculating the amount of payment in the event of termination of an employment contract at the initiative of an athlete (at his own discretion). Study and logical-content analysis of legislative acts and court decisions on disputes on termination of employment contract at the initiative of a professional sportsman (at his own will); synthesis of concepts and theoretical provisions; generalization of experi-ence of foreign countries. As a results. The analysis of materials of international, foreign and domestic court prac-tice in cases of termination of employment contracts by professional soccer players at their own will allowed to establish the imperfection of the labor legislation of the Russian Federa-tion in terms of the absence of borders and criteria for establishing the amount of compensa-tion to be paid by the employee in the event of termination of the employment contract at his own will, and also allowed to determine the mechanism for calculating the amount of the said payment. It seems that it is correct from the point of view of protecting the rights and interests of professional soccer players' employees and employers-football clubs to establish at the level of the labor legislation a mechanism for calculating the amount of compensation payable in the event of termination of the employment contract at the initiative of the sportsman (at his own will). The amount of this amount should include payments similar to those included in the amount of compensation for training at the transition of a professional soccer club from one professional soccer club to another. In case of conclusion of a fixed-term employment contract with an athlete, the "price of the rupture" of the employment contract at the initiative of the employee should be the amount of his unearned wages and other agreed payments (by analogy with Art. 249 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation). If an employment contract was concluded as an open-ended one, the amount of compensation to be paid should be a multiple (perhaps three times, by analogy with Art. 181 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation) the amount of wages of such employee.