(1) In all cases where in a unit there are the premises for initiating a collective labor dispute, the employees' representatives have the right to submit to the employer their claims regarding the establishment of new working conditions or modification of existing ones, collective bargaining, conclusion, modification and execution of the collective labor contract.

(2) The employees' claims are submitted to the employer (his representatives) in written form. They must be substantiated and contain concrete references to the infringed rules of the legislation in force.

(3) The employer is obliged to receive the submitted claims and to register them in the established manner.

(4) The copies of the claims may be handed over, as the case may be, to the hierarchically superior bodies of the unit, the employers' associations, the branch unions, the central and local public authorities.

(5) The employer is obliged in written form to respond to the employees' representatives within 5 working days from the date of claims registration.