Problems of Implementing the Right to Work in the Current Economic Conditions of the Pandemic Period

Abstract

The article summarizes the practice of forming a legal framework for organizing work remotely in the context of the spread of a new coronavirus infection. The relevance of the study is due to the fact that in a pandemic, the current state of the social and labor sphere is one of the most important problems in all countries of the world. The main objective of the study is to scientifically substantiate the problem of the impact of the negative consequences of the spread of COVID-19 on the rights of workers in the field of labor relations. The purpose of the article is a comparative analysis of the implementation of labor legislation using the example of various countries in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The object of the research is social relations arising in the labor market. The subject of the research is the assessment of the implementation of the right to work of an employee performing labor activities in a safe or remote mode. The economic analysis of private law, comparative legal analysis, methods of statistical research and analysis of scientific literature and open sources of the Internet are used. In the course of the study, statistical and other data were compared, an analysis of Russian, Chinese and American labor legislation was made, which allows drawing conclusions about the prospects for interaction between Russia and the outside world in the coming decades based on the experience gained by the world community during the COVID-19 pandemic and before it began. The results of the study will be useful to lawyers and economists, as well as representatives of business and industrial structures, whose professional interests include issues of organizing workers' labor in the pandemic.