DIGITALIZATION OF ACCESS TO INFORMATION ON MEDIATION FOR RESOLUTION INDIVIDUAL LABOR DISPUTES

Low level of awareness among employees about mediation as an alternative way of resolving individual labor disputes is noted. It is proposed that the association of mediators strengthen work in the following areas: 1) visual information and explanatory work (send brochures or letters to the e-mail addresses of enterprises in the relevant region to visualize information for the labor team about mediation practices for solving individual labor disputes; record video lectures or videos); 2) conducting personal meetings of mediators with employees of enterprises where, based on statistical data, conflict situations occur (potentially conflict-causing enterprises); 3) creation of a public register of individual labor disputes resolved through mediation, such as the EDR of court decisions, with depersonalization of the parties involved in disputes and compliance with the principle of preserving confidential information. The advantages of consideration of individual labor disputes through mediation over traditional methods of labor dispute resolution are outlined. It is suggested that the employer, together with the trade union, develop the Regulation on the pre-trial format of resolving individual labor disputes. Each employee of the enterprise, institution, or organization must be familiar with the text of this local act. It is recommended to intensify the activities of trade unions in the direction of developing, together with the employer, local acts aimed at digitizing information about the potential possibility of consideration of labor disputes through mediation, which should be available to the parties to the labor contract at any time for review. Part 1 of Art. 26 of the Law of Ukraine «On Trade Unions, Their Rights and Guarantees of Activity» should be amended as follows: «Trade unions and their associations have the right to represent the interests of employees in bodies considering individual labor disputes and during the settlement of labor disputes through mediation».