Prospects of legal regulation of labour migration in Eurasian economic Union

ABSTRACT to the Master thesis titled “Prospects for the Legal Framework of Labour Migration in the Eurasian Economic Union” Author: Aleksandr Nikolaevich Brusensky, student of the Faculty of Law, Department of Labour Law and Social Welfare Law, National Research University – Higher School of Economics As the Soviet Union had been dissolved and new independent states had emerged in its territory, all the internal bonds of the once united country, including those that used to exist in the field of labour migration, suddenly broke. The domestic network of the Soviet Union was transformed into relations between independent states within a short time frame, and potential employees who moved from one independent state to another to find a job turned into cross-border migrants. The purpose of this thesis is researching the prospects for the legal framework of labour migration and social welfare in the states of the EAEU, and developing the ways of their potential improvement. This paper identifies the challenges related to evaluation and recognition of academic credentials among the different EAEU member states, and the ways suggested to address those challenges. In particular, it suggests developing the Eurasian Education Integration strategy, improving the legal framework aimed at issuing academic diplomas of the unified standard format, and so on. Moreover, the thesis tackles issues related to social welfare of the EAEU working population, including the pension coverage. The paper suggests including a pension mobility scheme similar to the one existing in the European Union, into pension contracts for the EAEU working population. In addition, the paper addresses the issue of social welfare for people with disabilities who reside in the EAEU member states.