Article 22. Main rights and duties of the employer

The employer shall be entitled to:

conclude, amend and terminate labor contracts with employees in the manner and under the terms and conditions set by this Code, other federal laws;

engage in collective bargaining and conclude collective contracts;

reward employees for their conscientious and efficient performance;

require from employees fulfillment of their work duties, due care of the employer's and other employees' property, compliance with internal working regulations of the organization;

invoke disciplinary responsibility and material liability of employees in the manner set by this Code, other federal laws;

issue local normative acts;

organize employers' associations in order to represent and protect their interests and join such associations.

The employer shall:

comply with the laws and other normative legal acts, local normative acts, terms and conditions of the collective contract, agreements and labor contracts;

provide employees with the jobs specified in the labor contract;

ensure job safety and conditions meeting occupational safety and health requirements;

provide employees with the equipment, tools, technical documentation and other means required for performing their work duties;

ensure equal payment to employees for their labor of equal value;

pay in full the wages payable to employees on the dates specified by this Code, the collective contract, internal working regulations of the organization, labor contracts;

engage in collective bargaining as well as conclude collective contracts in the manner set by this Code;

provide employees' representatives with the complete and true information required for concluding a collective contract, agreements and for control of their implementation;

timely fulfill directives of the official state surveillance and control bodies, pay fines imposed for violations of the laws, other normative legal acts containing the labor law norms;

consider communications from relevant labor union bodies, other representatives elected by employees concerning discovered violations of the laws and other normative legal acts containing the labor law norms, take measures to remedy them and inform said bodies and representatives of the measures taken;

create conditions ensuring employees' participation in managing the organization in the forms stipulated by this Code, other federal laws and the collective contract;

provide for housekeeping needs of employees linked to performance of their work duties;

provide mandatory social insurance for employees in the manner set by federal laws;

redress damage inflicted on employees in the course of performing their work duties and compensate moral damage in the manner and under the conditions set by this Code, federal laws and other normative legal acts;

meet other obligations stipulated by this Code, federal laws and other normative legal acts containing the labor law norms, by the collective contract, agreements and labor contracts.