Remote Work as Zeitgeist: Legal Regulation of Remote Work, Practice and Prospects

N M Artemov,N F Ezhova,Yu V Mukhina

doi:10.17803/2311-5998.2021.86.10.026-033

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The article highlights the process of developing a new form of employment — remote work in Russia, regarding a number of basic legal issues related to legal entities and the regulation of the work of remote employees. The topic of the article is currently important due to the situation in the world related to the rapid development of new technologies and the usage of the Internet in our daily life. Moreover, remote work becomes highly sought due to the pandemic of coronavirus. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the practice of remote work in Russia and abroad, to the problems of legal regulation of remote work in Russia, and the European experience of its regulation. The article discusses some problems on control the working process for remote employees, the main difficulties connected to the process of working uncontrolled by both employers and employees. The article also considers the existing controversial opinions about the reasonability of remote work, its advantages, and disadvantages. The authors present some possible solutions to the current problems

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Remote work today is becoming increasingly popular, because with a free schedule outside the work office people with any education, with disabilities, women on parental leave, students, pensioners, specialists who want to earn some extra money, those living in distant regions can work practically anywhere
Remote work is instrumental in solving social problems and employment in various regions, as «it increases business activity and employment of the population, a person gets the opportunity to work without leaving home, the territory of his stay»
The very concept of remote work was enshrined in Article 312.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation — the fulfillment of a labor function outside the location of the employer or its separate unit, using public information and telecommunication networks to carry out activities and interaction between the employer and the employee

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Remote work today is becoming increasingly popular, because with a free schedule outside the work office people with any education, with disabilities, women on parental leave, students, pensioners, specialists who want to earn some extra money, those living in distant regions can work practically anywhere. L. Remote work: the experience of the European Union and the problems of legal regulation in Russia // Improving the law.

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