Labor Turnover and Legal Means of Combatting It

Under the conditions of socialism and the building of communism, labor turnover is not an inevitable accompaniment of production. On the contrary, it is fundamentally foreign to the planned nature of the socialist economy. Being a variety of undesirable flow of personnel, labor turnover interferes with the carrying out of planned allocation of the labor force and brings disproportions into the geographic distribution of production and the development of the national economy. It has a negative effect on most of the principal indicators of production. It causes a drop in the quality of output, increases costs, interferes with the smooth rhythm of production processes, dissipates job experience and skills, and impairs labor discipline. It has been calculated that the losses to the economy caused by labor turnover comprise about three billion rubles each year.