Article 370. The right of trade unions to supervise over the observance of the Labor Code and other legal acts, containing labor regulations.

Trade unions have the right to supervise over the observance of the Labor Code and other legal acts, containing labor regulations by employers and their representatives.

In a week after being charged with the directive to eliminate infringements disclosed, employers must inform the respective trade union body of the results and measures taken.

For the purpose of implementation of the supervision over the observance of the Labor Code and other legal acts, containing labor regulations, the all-Russian trade unions and their associations can establish legal and technical trade union labor inspections, authorized according to the provisions, approved by the all-Russian trade unions and their associations.

Interregional, as well as territorial alliance (association) of trade union organizations, acting on the territory of a subject of the Russian Federation, can establish legal and technical trade union labor inspections, effective on the provisions, approved in accordance with the provisions of the typical charter of the respective all-Russian trade union association.

Trade union labor inspectors, according to the procedures set, have the right to visit unhindered organizations, in which members of a given trade union or trade unions, forming part of an association, are employed, with the purpose of inspecting the observance of the Labor Code and other legal acts, containing labor regulations, as well as compliance with the provisions of collective contract, agreement.

Trade union labor inspectors, persons, authorized to protect trade union labor conditions (trustees) have the right to:

supervise over the observance of the Labor Code and other legal acts, containing labor regulations by employers;

carry out independent expertise of work conditions and labor safety regulations provision;

participate in investigation procedures of industrial accidents and professional diseases; obtain information from the heads and other officials of organizations, referring to the state of work conditions and labor protection, as well as to all industrial accidents and professional diseases;

protect rights and interests of the members of the trade union in respect of compensation for employee's health damages, brought at work;

charge employers with the directives to stop works in cases of immediate threat for the life and health of employees;

present employers with notations, pertaining to elimination of infringements of laws and other legal acts, containing labor regulations, binding in their action;

check the state of work conditions and labor protection, as well as employer's fulfillment of provisions of collective contracts and agreements;

participate as independent experts in the work of commissions, testing and approving the exploitation of industrial objects and production facilities;

participate in the procedures of resolution of labor disputes, connected with the infringement of labor protection laws, conditions, provided by collective contracts and agreements, as well as with the alternation of work conditions;

participate in the development of laws and other legal acts, containing labor regulations;

participate in the development of drafts of labor protective bylaws and coordinate them according to the procedure, set by the government of the Russian Federation;

petition respective bodies with charges referring to persons, guilty of infringement of laws and other legal acts, containing labor regulations and of concealment of industrial accidents.

Trade unions and their labor inspections, in the course of fulfillment of the said duties cooperate with the state bodies of supervision and control over the observance of laws and other legal acts, containing labor regulations.

Persons, authorized to protect trade union labor conditions (trustees) have the right to inspect the observance of labor protection regulations unhindered and present employers with notations, pertaining to elimination of infringements of labor protection regulations, binding in their action.