Secondment of the Employees' Labor (Personnel's s Labor) as an Atypical Form of Employment

Abstract

The article considers legal relations arising between the employee, the primary employer and the seconding employer when a secondment agreement is made to provide staff (personnel) and when the employment contract is made between the employee and the seconding employer represented by a private employment agency. It is noted that secondment of staff (personnel) is one of the legalized forms of atypical employment in the Russian Federation, the author considers peculiarities of such relations. The author discusses the problem of “precarization” of employees’ labor temporarily sent to the secondment employer, considers the mechanisms of protection of workers from deterioration of their legal status and determines inefficiency of such mechanisms. The paper considers the issues related to 1) modification of traditional approaches to regulation of labor relations with employees temporarily sent to another entity performing the functions of the employer; 2) the problems of implementation of collective rights of workers; 3) the refusal to use traditional mechanisms of bringing employees to disciplinary and financial responsibility; and 4) the “splitting” of the status of the employer between the primary employer and the seconding employer.