Comparative analysis of the legal status of migrant workers on SES Agreement on the Legal Status of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families and the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union

Abstract

The present article is devoted to the analysis of the Agreement on the Legal Status of Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, signed in St. Petersburg in 2010 in comparison with the recently signed Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union. The subject of analysis is the legal regime for migrant workers from the states of the Common Economic Space, acting on the territory of the Russian Federation. The analysis of the legal regime is performed based on its specifi city: the features of employment of migrant workers; conditions of temporary stay; registration procedures; measure of migrants labor rights, and other rights that apply including family members of migrant workers; taxation of migrant workers income. Concludes that there is a special regime for migrant workers from the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan.