Redefining Global Economic Thinking for the Welfare of Society

This chapter examines the legal and financial control issues regarding compliance with labor legislation. On the one hand, the legal analysis shows that legislation is one of the main factors influencing the financial control practice for compliance with labour legislation. On the other hand, the problems and specifics of the control procedures applied by the General Labor Inspectorate Executive Agency in Bulgaria are presented. The overall inspection process is presented sequentially, analyzing the individual stages that the control procedures go through. The problems and the specifics of carrying out an independent inspection activity by the agency are presented, and the peculiarities of carrying out joint control activities with executive bodies or their administrative structures by the specialized administration are examined. Different types of factors that influence the implementation of control procedures by the General Labor Inspectorate Executive Agency in Bulgaria are considered.

SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION ON NORMATIVE ISSUES OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH, SANITARY AND HYGIENIC EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DEMANDS IN PHARMACY ESTABLISHMENTS DURING COVID DISEASES IN THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

Protecting safe working conditions involves the use of ineffective and reliable means of preventing industrial injuries and occupational diseases, technologies, equipment and others. It is natural that the fields, technological processes, etc., are characterized by their specifics and the safety rules should be different for them. In pharmacies, laboratories, training and scientific research laboratories, warehouses, production equipment are subject to daily cleaning. Cabinets in storage rooms should be cleaned as needed, but at least once a week. Wet cleaning of the pharmacy, laboratory/ factory (floor and equipment) before starting work. Only dry cleaning of laboratory / production using disinfectants is not allowed. Waste and rubbish should be collected in special containers with a moving lid and should be removed at least once a day. Hand-washed sinks, toilets and garbage containers should be cleaned, rinsed and disinfected daily. Personnel are required to follow the rules of personal hygiene and industrial sanitation, to carry out the relevant personnel to perform food, smoking, as well as storage of food, tobacco and personal medicines in pharmacies, training and scientific research laboratories and departures. Pharmaceutical establishments do not comply with the hygienic norms of the internal and external environment, physical, chemical and biological factors of the labor process. The facility also does not take into account psychosocial factors related to safety (stress, communication, post-traumatic stress, etc.); Most pharmaceutical establishments (50-60%) do not have a fire board with appropriate equipment, evacuation exit and scheme. Also has no person responsible for the matter; Disobsibility and specialist protection/separation facility prior to pandemic were minimal (increased by 99%) during pandemic; The state should create an appropriate legislative and institutional framework; We think this will help transform the existing department into an effective labor inspectorate. The possibility will be created of the institutional capacity of its independence and efficiency, and the law will also provide guarantees for the individual independence of inspectors. Also, the bill should directly refer to the Labor Inspectorate as the body responsible for law enforcement.

Current Problems in Monitoring Compliance with Labor Laws by Economic Entities in the Russian Federation

The purpose of the paper is to find the ways to solve problems that arise in the work of the Federal Labor Inspectorate to improve the effectiveness of its monitoring and supervisory activities. The article examines the legislative and regulatory documents, treats most urgent violations in the field of labor legislation, assesses the risk-oriented approach to determining the entities controlled. Drawing on the assessment of legal acts that regulate the procedure for carrying out inspections, the authors make proposals to amend certain provisions of the current legislation in the area under study. The article proposes an additional determinant of employers’ classification for the appointment of a scheduled inspection based on the likelihood of informal registration of workers and informal payments.

O Dark Side no Setor Rural: um panorama das condições de trabalho análogas à escravidão no Brasil

O presente trabalho teve por objetivo apresentar um panorama do trabalho escravo rural contemporâneo no Brasil, com base em estatísticas elaboradas a partir das fiscalizações dos Auditores Fiscais do Trabalho, do então Ministério do Trabalho (MTb), nos anos de 2015, 2016 e 2017. Assim, utilizou-se uma abordagem quali-quantitativa por meio das pesquisas documental e bibliográfica. Os dados foram coletados em arquivos digitais do MTb, fomentados pelas auditorias realizadas pelos fiscais governamentais. O pano de fundo teórico teve início com os conceitos do Dark Side, complementados pela dimensão jurídica dos danos (materiais, morais e existenciais) e pela teoria da Sociedade Disciplinar elaborada por Foucault em sua obra Vigiar e Punir. Os dados quantitativos foram organizados em tabelas, utilizando-se cálculos percentuais, que consolidam os resultados das fiscalizações. Ao final foram encontrados diversos tipos de danos ao trabalhador escravizado, listadas as consequências das ações dos auditores e feita uma analogia com a Sociedade de Controle. Verificou-se que as características do Dark Side em relação aos trabalhadores em situação análoga à escravidão, foram diferentes da proposta feita para as organizações em ambientes urbanos, construindo-se, então, uma estrutura específica para o segmento em questão. The objective of this study was to present a panorama of contemporary rural slave labor in Brazil, based on statistics based on the inspections of the Auditors of the Labor Inspectorate of the then Ministry of Labor (MTb), in the years 2015, 2016 and 2017. Thus, a qualitative-quantitative approach was used through documentary and bibliographic research. The data were collected in digital files of MTb, fomented by the audits carried out by the government fiscals. The theoretical background began with the concepts of the Dark Side, complemented by the legal dimension of damages (material, moral and existential) and by the theory of the Disciplinary Society elaborated by Foucault in his work Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. The quantitative data were organized into tables, using percentage calculations, which consolidate the results of the inspections. At the end, it were found several types of damages to the enslaved worker, listed the consequences of the actions of the auditors and made an analogy with the Control Society. It was verified that the characteristics of the Dark Side in relation to the workers in situations analogous to slavery, were different from the proposal made for the organizations in urban environments, constructing, then, a specific structure for the segment in question.

Safety of machines and technical devices

The article discusses the minimum requirements and essential requirements for machines and technical devices. The state of implementation of directives related to work safety was presented on the basis of inspections carried out by inspectors of the National Labor Inspectorate in 2010-2017 and analysis of data on occupational hazards, accidents and their causes in the processing industry..

From Poker Games to Kitchen Tables: How Social Dynamics Affect Frontline Decision Making

Existing research on bureaucratic encounters typically studies how bureaucrats’ and clients’ characteristics influence frontline decision making. How social interactions between street-level bureaucrats and between officials and citizens could directly affect case-related decisions largely remains an underexplored field of study, despite the fact that new forms of governance introduce social dynamics in the form of trust and collaboration as tools to increase legitimacy. Relying on in-depth qualitative data of the Belgian labor inspectorate and the Dutch tax authorities, this study scrutinizes how decisions about cases could be affected by their immediate social context.