ENTERPRISE RULES AND REGULATIONS (IN YUGOSLAVIA)
ENTERPRISE RULES AND REGULATIONS (IN YUGOSLAVIA)

Summary/Abstract: The introduction of workers’ self-management meant the beginning of the development of enterprises as law-creating bodies, i. e. of the development of so-called autonomous law. The first autonomous legal prescription adopted by enterprises as early as 1950 were charters and rules governing the organization, composition and responsibilities of workers’ councils and other organs of management. Since then the rights of working communities; to regulate the basic relationships in their enterprises have been steadily expanded. In the process numerous matters have been placed within the province of self-managing bodies, so that direct decision-making by the working class itself is gradually being substituted for decision-making “on behalf of the working class”. According to the Yugoslav Constitution, the right of the “working people associated in labor” autonomously to regulate the organization of the labor process and other matters in their enterprises is a fundamental prerogative and the basis of their autonomy and self-management. In this way the law-creating authority of enterprises has become one of the fundamental forms in which self-management expresses itself.

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