LEGAL REGULATION OF LABOR MIGRATION IN THE EU

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of international legal acts regulating labor migration in the EU, as well as the problems of their international legal protection. It is proved that the migration policy of the EU is not only a consolidated mechanism that affects the migration processes in the conditions of integration, but also takes into account the different spectrum of interests and the sovereignty of powers of the member states, their territorial, economic and political features. In this regard, the importance of observing certain limits of legal regulation is emphasized. The main directives and other international legal acts in the field of labor migration at the EU level were analyzed. Attention is drawn to the fact that EU bodies and institutions have limited competence in the field of legal regulation of legal migration. Formation of migration policy and mechanisms of legal regulation of the specified area remains the prerogative of the member states. It is noted that since in most cases, the acts adopted at the supranational level are directives, this means that the implementation of the provisions of these acts, the methods of their interpretation and interpretation completely depend on the competent national authorities. It is also stated that the measures adopted by the European Union in the field of integration do not provide for the harmonization of national legal systems. Instead, the actions of the EU are aimed at the gradual convergence of the legal status of citizens of third countries who are legally in the territory of the EU, long-term residents, to the legal status of the countries of the European Union. It was concluded that in today's world, on the global labor market, the tendency to change the migration policy of states in the context of understanding the need for legal protection of migrant workers, the inadmissibility of excluding migrant workers from legal protection systems is increasingly noticeable. In this regard, a special role is assigned to the state migration policy, which must take into account all factors of external labor migration that affect the system of social and labor relations in the state.