SOCIAL DIALOGUE IS A WAY TO OVERCOME SOCIAL AND LABOR CONFLICTS

Abstract

The article identifies the peculiarities of the method of resolving disagreements and ensuring a parity balance of interests between the subjects of social and labor relations through social dialogue. The essence and role of social dialogue in ensuring the improvement of the level and quality of life of citizens and social stability in society are revealed. The mechanisms of social dialogue in Ukraine are outlined. The formation of the procedure for the formation, composition and organization of the work of the National Tripartite Social and Economic Council and territorial social and economic councils in the regions of Ukraine is determined. The author emphasizes the important role of the International Labor Organization in strengthening social dialogue on labor issues. The experience of foreign countries in conducting social dialogue is studied. Social dialogue can function as a crisis switch, which leads to more effective crisis management, as social tensions are replaced by compromises. Given the peculiarities of the development of social and labor relations in Ukraine, these and other issues are intended to create the preconditions for the formation of a new self-sufficient platform for the development and protection of workers’ rights based on a new quality of contractual relations of both individual and collective nature, and modern instruments for the protection of labor rights. The author emphasizes the importance of updating the legislation on social dialogue in Ukraine in wartime. Successful social dialogue processes have the potential to address important economic and social issues, as well as to promote social peace and stability in the labor sphere.  Through social dialogue, misunderstandings between groups can be minimized and tensions can be more easily managed. Social dialogue can play a key role in mediating social conflicts and finding compromises between divergent economic and social interests.