From the labor market to the employment market: A new reality (Review of the VII St. Petersburg International Labor Forum)

Abstract

The article is an analysis of the results of academic events held within the framework of the VII St. Petersburg International Labor Forum, held on March 13-17, 2023. The VII St. Petersburg International Labor Forum continued the traditions of its predecessors, focusing on the promotion of goals, new mechanisms and instruments of state policy in the field of progressive development of the social and labor sphere, optimization of labor relations. The main directions of the Labor Forum 2023 were concentrated around the problems of HR management, the exchange of best practices and new HR technologies, the definition of vectors of human capital development as a key factor in the growth of the modern economy and the modernization of the labor sphere, the formation of models of safe work, the choice of a strategy for the development of the country through human capital management in the context of ongoing changes. Today, under the conditions of sanctions pressure, the key problems of the social and labor sphere of the Russian Federation sound particularly acute. Therefore, the main emphasis was placed on the processes of adaptation of the labor market and employment to new realities. It was in this context that issues were discussed and solutions were sought to create a comfortable and favorable environment for the working life of citizens and doing business. Within the framework of the Forum, recommendations were developed on more than 50 sites for public authorities, business, educational organizations, and the scientific community on improving the functioning of the labor market and its adaptation to new conditions, including on improving labor legislation and legislation regulating economic activity, on improving law enforcement practice in this area, and also proposed priority areas of scientific research in the field under consideration.