ABSTRACT
Soviet labor law involves a combination of detailed government planning of labor allocation, including assignment of workers to specific jobs, with a considerable amount of freedom of individuals in choosing jobs and of employers in choosing employees. Forced migration of labor has been a significant factor in Soviet history, though it is of much less importance. Legislation calls for the setting of several types of labor-related plan indicators for production associations and enterprises. Production workers are typically paid a guaranteed base wage rate plus a piecework or performance-based supplement. There are a number of crimes listed in the criminal code for which convicted persons may be removed from their occupation. These include such crimes as production of substandard goods and abuse of authority. The wages fund is to be specified only in branches of the economy for which there is no norm for wages per ruble of production.
