Article 7. Acts of local self-government bodies containing the labor law norms

Local self-government bodies can issue acts containing the labor law norms within the limits of their competence.

Article 8. Local normative acts containing the labor law norms issued by an employer

An employer shall issue local normative acts containing the labor law norms within the limits of its competence in accordance with the laws and other normative legal acts, the collective contract, agreements.

In cases stipulated by this Code, the laws and other normative legal acts, the collective contract the employer, at issuing local normative acts containing the labor law norms, shall take the opinion of the body representing the employees into account.

A collective contract, agreement can stipulate issuance of local normative acts containing the labor law norms by arrangement with the body representing employees.

Local normative acts aggravating the employees' situation as compared with the labor laws, collective contract, agreements or issued without complying with the procedures, stipulated by this Code, of taking into account the opinion of the body representing the employees shall be deemed null and void. Laws or other normative legal acts containing the labor law norms shall apply in such cases.

Article 9. Contractual regulation of labor relations and other relations directly linked to them

In accordance with the labor laws labor relations and other relations directly linked to them can be regulated by employees and employers concluding, amending, appending collective contracts, agreements, labor contracts.

Collective contracts, agreements as well as labor contracts cannot contain terms and conditions reducing the level of rights and guarantees to employees set by the labor laws. Should such terms and conditions be included in a collective contract, agreement or a labor contract, they shall not be applied.

Article 10. Laws, other normative legal acts containing the labor law norms and the international law norms

Generally accepted principles and norms of international law and international treaties of the Russian Federation shall be, pursuant to the Russian Federation Constitution, constituent parts of the Russian Federation legal system.

Should an international treaty of the Russian Federation set the rules differing from those stipulated by laws and other normative legal acts containing the labor law norms, the international treaty norms shall apply.