Legal regulation of the labor activity of minors during the hetmanate’s time

Abstract

To date, the question of the legal regulation of the state’s labor policy towards different segments of the population (in particular children and adolescents) remains relevant. Having existed for almost 30 years, Ukrainian State still uses the labor law of the Soviet Union with supplements and amendments in regulating labor relations. Discussions about the development and adoption of a Labor Code that would be based on European values and would take into
account current labor trends have been ongoing for a long time. But despite the fact that working conditions, types and methods of activity are evolving all the time, it would be appropriate to get acquainted with personal historical experience. From our point of view, it is interesting to examine legislative initiatives in this area during the period of national liberation competitions of 1917-1921 years, or, at least, one of the state entities of this period, as the closest to the present statehood. In the article the author is focused on the Ukrainian State of the times of Pavlo Skoropadsky, as one of the fi rst states that really paid attention to social and labor policy and even created a separate ministry to ensure completion of these projects. In the article the legal component of the specifi ed period is being investigated regarding the legal regulation of employment of kids and minors. The author analyzed The Regulation on the Labour Protection of Minors and Adolescents, which deals with the detailed regulation of the employment of people under the age of eighteen years. The Regulation focuses on the procedure of employment depending on the age of child, provides details about the working conditions. Also in The Regulation are clarifi ed age-related standardization of work, identified a list of jobs that may not be allowed for minors, established the procedure of medical examination and a list of facilities and hospitals that can carry out such examinations. In the process of studying of specifi ed period, the author makes a comparison with modernity and concludes that some points in the legal regulation of employment are the same or very similar.