THE ENFORCEMENT OF EMPLOYEE RIGHT TO PRIVACY IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Abstract

The right to privacy is a constitutionally safeguarded human right. The employee right to privacy exists due to consolidation of the mentioned liberty in the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The Labour Code of the Russian Federation does not secure employee right to privacy directly, it regulates the issue of the employee personal data. But the employee right to privacy is characterized by particular qualities that are extrinsic to general human privacy. The aim of the present research is to analyze different spheres in which the employee right to privacy realizes. In response to this aim, firstly, the concepts of the privacy will be evaluated, the national and international labor law will be examined, and the judicial practice will be reviewed. Eventually, some unresolved points of the process of employee right to privacy enjoyment will be identified.