Keyword: «social rights»

The proposed article examines international documents on human rights, compares international and national legislation, reveals issues of social rights and social protection of citizens, defines "social protection" and "social guarantees", and identifies social problems and approaches to their implementation.

Social rights throughout the history of their formation and development cause ambiguous attitude not only among legal scholars, but also among economists, political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists. Apart from the very enshrinement of social rights in legislation, a fundamentally important issue is their proportionality, i.e. justification of their necessity and sufficiency. Determination of the nature of social rights and justification of their fixation, as it seems, con-tributes to the resolution of the discussion about the legitimacy of state interference in economic freedom and the necessity in some cases to isolate certain branches. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the legal nature of social rights, as well as the proportionality of their entrenchment. To achieve this goal, the necessity and validity of social legislation, the concept of proportionality in relation to the consolidation of social rights were studied and analyzed. The research methods used were general-scientific (system-structural, system-functional, analytical) and private-scientific (logical-legal, formal-legal) methods. As a result of the conducted research, conclusions were made about the purpose of social legislation, about the definition of their proportionality.