Labour of professional female athletes

DOI

10.2991/icistis-19.2019.55How to use a DOI?

Keywords

women, employment contract, professional athlete, guarantees, benefits.

Abstract

The aim is to study the peculiarities of legal regulation of the work of women athletes. To answer the question to what extent the current labour legislation can effectively influence the relations between the parties of labour legal relations with the participation of female athletes. To disclose the specifics of individual labour law institutions in the field of athletes' labour regulation, such as employment contracts, working hours, labour protection, guarantees and compensations. Organization and methods of research: the subject of the research includes legal acts and regulatory norms handling separate institutes of labour law, practice of their application, as well as a complex of theoretical provisions on labour relations of professional athlete. The research is based on the general scientific methods of cognition: formal-logical, system-structural and comparative-legal. The study also uses different ways of interpreting legal norms. Results: analysis of modern legislation and scientific literature was carried out, gaps in the regulation of the work of women athletes were identified and proposals were developed to improve and further develop Russian labour legislation in the field of sport. Conclusion The care for the health, maternal function and the possibility of combining family responsibilities with employment should remain as the main directions in the regulation of women's work.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Elena Protchenko
PY  - 2019/11
DA  - 2019/11
TI  - Labour of professional female athletes
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovations in Sports, Tourism and Instructional Science (ICISTIS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 215
EP  - 219
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icistis-19.2019.55
DO  - 10.2991/icistis-19.2019.55
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