Peculiarities of Labor Relations Regulation amid Imposition of Martial Law and Special Economic Measures: Problems and Prospects for Harmonization

Abstract

The need to counter external threats to Russia’s national security predetermined the development of new and improvement of existing regulations in 2022. An assessment and comparative analysis of the legal means and innovations available in the field of labor confirmed that there is an objective need for comprehensive legal regulation of labor relations during emergency events. Considering the features of the organization of labor activity amid imposition of martial law and the operation of special economic measures, the author exposes conceptual uncertainty, discrepancies in the order, content and limits of impact on the sphere of labor, difficulties in applying and controversial issues of innovations were revealed, the lack of a general concept and uniformity of labor regulation in the conditions of emergency circumstances. It is proposed to streamline the regulations by focusing on the fact that countering threats to national security is the system-forming basis for the differentiation of the legal regulation of relations in the sphere of labor.