Review of the article. Full version available in the Belarusian part of the journal:

The author elaborates on the proper definition and understanding of a forced labour concept, referring to the Covenants of the International Labour Organization. Profoundly analysed are the cases of sanctioned deployment of compulsory labour, and the situations when all the possible forms of forced and compulsory labour are prohibited. The author postulates that some of the norms of Belarusian legislation do not correspond to the obligations of our Republic according to the international treaties in the sphere of labour law. Enlisted are the cases of discrepancy, namely the obligatory employment of the jobless, the system of distributing graduate students and the organisation of the so-called “subotniks”.

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Taciana Bruj (born in 1984 in Minsk) — a 5th year student at the Faculty of Law, Belarusian State University, Bachelor of Law.