FINANCIAL AND LEGAL REGULATION IN THE SPHERE OF EMPLOYMENT OF THE POPULATION IN REPUBLIC OF UZBEKISTAN

Abstract

The article examines the financial and legal mechanisms for regulating employment in the Republic of Uzbekistan. The adoption of the Law “On Employment of the Population” (2020) and the new Labor Code (2023) formed the normative basis for combining labor, social, and administrative norms. However, the implementation of these provisions largely depends on financial and legal instruments - subsidies, grants, tax benefits, and compensations to employers. The work analyzes the opinions of national scholars, including the consideration of employment financing as a tool for realizing constitutional rights, the conflict between administrative and financial law, the legal vulnerability of self-employed individuals, and the formal nature of appealing decisions of employment agencies. The author identifies systemic problems: limited funding, weak targeting of subsidies, duplication of bodies’ functions, and insufficient protection of digital platform workers and concludes that it is necessary to codify employment procedures, consolidate minimum standards of budget financing, strengthen digital transparency, and expand legal guarantees for self-employed and workers of new forms of employment, including remote, platform, and hybrid work, which responds to modern challenges of the digital transformation of the economy.