FLEXIBILITY OF LABOR LAW IN THE FIELD OF EMPLOYMENT AS AN ELEMENT OF THE WELFARE STATE

Abstract

The article analyzes one of the types of atypical employment –remote work and the adopted amendments to Chapter 49.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation. The authors consider remote work as a special form of employment that allows using labor resources during a pandemic and other emergencies more efficiently, reflecting the flexibility of legal regulation of labor relations in the Russian Federation. The authors analyzed certain provisions of labor legislation in the field of remote employment, and also used research methods such as historical, controversial, involved, deduction, identification-legal analysis. The importance of remote employment has been determined, which consists in the ability to work in the conditions of the modern distribution of the population, the use of innovative technologies, the development of the labor market, reflecting the improvement of the social role of atypical employment, the economic and technical development of the country. Authors analyzed the legal guarantees of remote workers in the performance of their work duties. Attention has been drawn to the positive and negative aspects of the legal regulation of remote employment. The article paid attention to the systemic problems in establishing the working conditions of remote workers. The articlealso revealed the problems of applying the hotel provisions of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and substantiates the directions for overcoming them.