FEATURES OF THE LEGAL STATUS OF TRADE UNIONS AS SUBJECTS OF SUPERVISION AND CONTROL OVER COMPLIANCE WITH LABOR LEGISLATION

The right to ensure an adequate level of work is guaranteed to every person and is controlled both by the state and other entities, in particular trade unions, which have a special legal status, which significantly distinguishes them from other entities authorized to supervise and control labor law compliance


INTRODUCTION
Trade unions are one of the important subjects of supervision and control over compliance with labor legislation. Modern trade unions are an association of employees created by them to protect before employers, entrepreneurs-owners, unions of entrepreneurs, the state -not only the interests of their members, but also those representatives of wage labor who are not members of trade unions (TSVIH, 2002). Trade unions, being organizations for the protection of the economic and social interests of employees, are at the same time an important 102 HARBUZIYK, K.; GUSAROV, O.; KUCHER, O.; MELNYK, V. Features of the legal status or Trade Unions as subjects of supervision and control over compliance with labor legislation institution of civil society, designed to represent, express and protect the interests of employees as citizens. Their role in civil society is determined by the degree of empowerment and expansion due to their actions and the struggle of civil rights and freedoms of employees, the approval and development of the practice of social partnership in it and the stimulation of trade union self-government. Since at different times trade unions contributed to this in one way or another, it can be argued that they have always participated in the development of civil society, playing an important role in this process (TRETYAK, 2006;BILOUS, 2020). The trade union in Ukraine has been and remains the key subject of supervision and control over compliance with labor legislation. Given the above, trade unions have their own, special legal status, the features of which will be addressed in the presented scientific research.
The activity of trade unions has repeatedly become the subject of scientific research.
However, despite a considerable number of scientific achievements, there are no comprehensive scientific studies in the scientific literature devoted to the characteristics of the legal status of trade unions as subjects of supervision and control over compliance with labor legislation.

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
While writing the scientific research, a number of general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge were used. Thus, with the help of the logic and semantic method, the essence and purpose of the activity of trade unions was clarified. The method of documentary analysis was used in order to carry out an analysis of the norms of the current legislation, which establishes the legal status of trade unions as subjects of supervision and control over compliance with labor legislation. The analytical method made it possible to distinguish the peculiarities of the legal status of the subjects studied in the article. The normative basis of the work is legislative and by-law normative legal acts, the norms of which establish the legal status of trade unions as subjects of supervision and control. The theoretical basis consists of the works of specialists in the field of labor and administrative law who dealt with the problems of trade unions. The development of trade unions in the public and political dimension associated with maintaining by them socio-political movements, which in different periods of political history had the status of social movements. The trade union movement at this stage has the ability to mobilize citizens to defend their labor rights that are under regulatory pressure correction and minimization by reviewing the priorities of the welfare state. Therefore, the organizational forms of trade unions as social movements have become more available and acceptable for contemporary citizens (TUPYTSIA, 2017).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
In the scientific literature, as V. Kravchuk quite rightly notes, there are a large number of approaches to the definition of the concept of "trade union". In some, there is a noticeable desire to reduce trade unions to economic organizations, in others, to turn them into universal organizations capable of protecting all interests of employees without exception, including political and legal ones. Between these two positions there is a wide range of views, in which trade unions are considered more broadly than economic organizations but more narrowly than universal. They assume that trade unions represent and protect, in addition to economic, social, labor, and spiritual interests of employees, as well as a range of discrete interests -quality of life, consumer rights, environmental safety, etc. (TSVIH, 2004, p. 14-15). But, according to the above-mentioned authors, the specified article should be supplemented with the words: "...and unemployed citizens who wish to be members of a trade union." Such an addition will make it possible not only to include non-working citizens with trade union membership, but also, if necessary, to represent and protect their interests in various institutions.
According to A. Volodin (1998, p. 105-106), a rather wide list of characteristic features of trade unions should include the following: 1) trade unions are organizations which main function is to ensure economic rights; 2) along with other organizations of civil society, trade unions rely on an "objective group" (that is, a group of people that is distinguished in society by the peculiarities of its existence), in this case -hired workers; 3) trade unions belong to the minority of institutions that make up civil society, which have rival partners in their environment. For trade unions, these are entrepreneurs, Therefore, trade unions, despite their rather long history of existence, continue to play an important role in modern civil society. As a non-profit organization created on a voluntary basis, its activity is aimed at protecting the economic, social and other rights of workers. And therefore, through trade unions, the latter have the opportunity to influence the employer, as a subject of labor law, to limit the possibility of arbitrariness on his part. In view of the above, it is quite logical to assume that one of the priority areas of activity is supervision and control over compliance with labor legislation. After all, it is the latter that is an extremely important tool for ensuring the rights and freedoms of all participants in labor and closely related legal It should be noted that the fact that the Law of Ukraine "On Trade Unions, Their Rights and Guarantees of Activity" declares the independence of trade unions from state authorities and local self-government bodies, employers, other civil organizations, political parties. Having a theoretical basis -recognition by the state of the independence and non-control of trade unions by authorities, the practical actions of trade unions to protect the rights of citizens largely depend on the activity of trade union leaders and trade activists, their awareness of responsibility for socio-economic situation of citizens (Solominchuk).

CONCLUSIONS
Thus, the conducted scientific research makes it possible to state that today trade unions, regardless of the level at which they are created, have their own, special legal status, which significantly distinguishes them from other entities that are authorized to supervise and control compliance with labor legislation. The peculiarities of their legal status are related to the fact that: firstly, trade unions are the closest institutions to the key subjects of labor law, namely employees and employers; secondly, trade unions actually carry out continuous supervision of compliance with the norms of the current legislation at each individual enterprise, institution of the organization; thirdly, despite the peculiarities of their formation, trade unions are independent from employers, which gives them more opportunities to carry out effective and efficient control over the latter's compliance with the norms of current legislation; fourthly, compared to other subjects of supervision and control, trade unions are organizations that are formed on a voluntary basis and have a non-profit nature; fifth, the purpose of their activity, including control and supervision, is to protect the rights, freedoms and interests of employees.