The Labor Code: targets all organizations in the Russian Federation, non-respectably to ownership, size and legal status.
There are four major areas of innovations in the new Labor Code:
The primacy of law in labor relations. Thus, all clauses in individual labor contracts, even if a contract is voluntarily signed by an employees, that deteriorate the conditions of employments regarding the existing legislation, are illegal.
Second, the rights of trade-unions are seriously limited. For example, the approval of a trade-union in mass lay-offs is not required anymore, trade-union activists may be easily fired, and employer is not obliged to provide the necessary conditions for trade-union daily activities
a special chapter was devoted to contracts of executives, thus enabling owners for stricter control of top managers in their companies.