Court decisions are not obeyed

People, who have conflicts with their employers, rather often turn to the Kharkiv Group for human rights protection. For example, we got 4 complaints of this kind during the last week. The typical scenario is such. A firm, which did not pay salaries for a long time, has to reduce its staff. According to the law, the fired employee has the right to obtain at once all his pay arrears. As a rule, the money is not paid. Then the unpaid turn to court, and the court, according to the law, ruled to pay the money. Such court decisions are, as a rule, not obeyed.

Disobedience of court decisions becomes more and more serious problem of our jurisdiction. This problem must be solved by all the branches of power, together with mass media, for without fulfillment of court decisions the third power actually does not exist.

Our informant