The human right to personal dignity: issues of respect and humiliation in public service

The article examines the human right to personal dignity, which is enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation, through an analysis of provisions related to respect for personality and humiliation of human dignity. The object of the study is federal government employees: military personnel and employees of other federal government agencies with special ranks. The norms of federal laws that regulate or, in the author's opinion, should regulate the issues under consideration are analyzed, as well as other legal acts related to the research topic. As a result of the study, it was revealed that the legislative regulation of relations in the civil service has been fully implemented in relation to military personnel, partially in relation to employees of the internal affairs bodies and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, and there is practically no fixed duty of mutual respect for employees of the State Fire Service. The author applied general scientific research methods, in particular, systematic, logical, as well as system-structural. Among the special methods used are formal–legal and comparative-legal. Having considered the legislative norms, the author came to the conclusion that it is necessary to educate Russian citizens from birth, and from school to teach them mutual respect not only in the broadest sense, but also from an applied perspective, that is, in line with the mutual respect of students during their studies, work colleagues, and employees, especially in the "boss – a subordinate" relations. The absence of violations affecting human dignity in the service (work) will not require the use of punitive legal norms, warnings will be sufficient, including moral suggestion. In order for civil servants of other types to unambiguously understand the obligation to respect each other in service and at work, and the prohibition of humiliating colleagues in any way and in any place, especially those below them, in our opinion, it is necessary (taking as an example the relevant norms applicable to military personnel) to amend the relevant articles of federal laws in order to add an obligation to respect the dignity of other employees, to prevent humiliation, bullying, and insults to employees, while providing for disciplinary and criminal liability for these violations in legislative acts.