Abstract
<jats:p>During employment relations, employees have both individual and collective labor rights and obligations, the scope of which is defined by collective labor agreements. However, in the processes of concluding, executing, amending, and terminating a collective labor agreement, disagreements often arise between the parties, the mechanisms for the resolution of which are exhaustively provided for by the Labor Code of the Republic of Armenia. The Labor Code of the Republic of Armenia provides for a regulation that in the case of collective labor disputes, only the dispute regarding the execution of the provisions of the collective labor agreement may be the subject of judicial protection, as a result of which the possibility of judicial protection of legitimate interests formed at the pre-contractual stage was not provided for. It has been suggested that it is necessary to provide the right to judicial protection in collective labor disputes in the Republic of Armenia that relates to the formation of rights that do not yet exist within the framework of collective labor relations, that is, legal interests (for example, disputes related to the conclusion or amendment of a collective labor agreement), taking into account, among other things, the legal obstacle that arises in the event of a strike if the dispute is not resolved.</jats:p>