Features of labor relations in professional sports

The article is devoted to the issue of regulating labor relations in all socially important spheres for the state, where such relations can arise and ensuring decent working conditions for all employees. Physical culture and sports are becoming a relevant sphere, because they are an important component of social existence. And, of course, professional athletes as an equal center of society require balanced legal regulation, the possibility of realizing and protecting their rights and legitimate interests. Professional sports are a unique phenomenon of modern society, which combines cultural, social and economic functions. At the same time, it is an area where specific labor relations are formed. Athletes, coaches, representatives of sports clubs and federations enter the system of relations regulated by labor law, but there are cases of regulation of such relations by civil law. In turn, labor relations are a system of social relations that arise in the process of work and are regulated by labor law norms. In sports, they have a special nature, since sports activities combine a high level of physical activity, publicity and specific working conditions. An athlete is a subject of labor relations, but his activities go beyond the boundaries of classical labor functions, since they include participation in competitions, advertising events, compliance with sports regulations, etc. The purpose of the article is to study the features of the emergence of labor relations in professional sports, their significance for the development of the labor sphere and the identification of the main problems of their legal regulation. The article examines the regulatory and legal basis for the emergence of labor relations and their consolidation, and also summarizes the set of factors that influence the emergence of such relations. The study emphasized the importance of providing professional athletes with the most decent working conditions, taking into account the instability in the state, security conditions, the need to finalize legislative mechanisms for regulating interaction between the state, employer and employee, and making amendments to current labor legislation.

professional sports; athlete; employee; labor relations; labor contract; labor function; working conditions; national legislation