Research on the Quality of Work and Life of Teachers During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Abstract. The research shows results of a medical and legal assessment on teachers rights of implementation to health and safe work during remote work. The driver of the transition to telecommuting was the COVID-19 pandemic; the urgency of distancing resulted in an increase in professional risks, a decrease in the quality of work and life of teachers. A survey was carried out of 436 respondents from 22 constituent entities of the Russian Federation in order to develop proposals for improving the legislation and organizing the protection of the health of teachers on the basis of studying their opinions. The data obtained by the authors confirm the hypothesis put forward by them about the insufficiency of legal regulation of remote work and the protection of workers' health, the unpreparedness of workers to self-regulation of the quality of work. It leads to the conclusions about the need to strengthen the role of the state in the regulation of teachers work and to ensure the protective function of labor law in terms of protecting the health of teleworkers, as well as a qualitative change in the normative regulation of preventive medical examinations of teachers.