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Проблемы правового регулирования аутсорсинга и аутстаффинга
Problems of legal regulation of outsourcing and outstaffing

Author(s): Aleksandrs Baikovs, Juliia Bolshakova
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Business Economy / Management, Civil Law, Labor relations, Law on Economics, Human Resources in Economy
Published by: Baltijas Starptautiskā akadēmija
Keywords: outsourcing; outsourcing contract; outsourcer; outstaffing; outstaffing contract; outstaffer; outstaffing agreement;

Summary/Abstract: Outsourcing and outstaffing are the ways ways to optimize the activities of doing business. Outsourcing is a form of inter-firm cooperation and involves concentrating efforts on the functions and activities that are field-specific to the business and transferring incidental functions and activities to specialized legal entities - outsourcers. In the paper the historical and legal aspects of the formation and development of outsourcing and outstaffing in the world practice are considered, the types and forms of outsourcing used in practice are distinguished. In turn, “outstaffing” means also that the company employees are taken outside the company staff. When outstaffing, a staff enters into employment contracts not with a company that is not the actual employer, but with an intermediary organization or an outstaffer. Particular attention is drawn to the competitive advantages of implementing these business technologies, their inherent advantages and disadvantages. The article analyses the legal nature, the constitutive signs of outsourcing and outstaffing contracts that are not named in the current legislation of Latvia, determines their place in the contractual law system, gives their legal and typological characteristics, discloses the content of obligations arising on the basis of these contracts, analyses the differences between these contracts and outsourced employment and recruiting.

  • Issue Year: 45/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 37-49
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Russian