The article notes that the active reform processes taking place in Ukraine have a significant impact on the development of Ukraine as a legal, social and democratic state. Currently, there is an active reform of public administration and local government. The legislator and the legal status of the civil service in Ukraine did not miss attention in the field of legal support reform. Thus, the active development of the civil service institute has gone from the emergence of development and reform to the current state of legal support and institutional affiliation of various genera and types of civil service
 The term «legal status» should be understood as a system of statutory freedoms and obligations, as well as guarantees for the activities of a civil servant in the process of his civil service. Thus, we can identify the following thesis, which once again emphasizes the importance of the legal status of a civil servant. Thus, a civil servant is a person who, in order to perform the tasks and functions of the state, exercises his constitutional right to participate in the management of public affairs and carries out his activities within certain statutory powers manifested in the system of rights and responsibilities of a civil servant. in connection with admission to the civil service and remain with him throughout the term of service.
 Legislative consolidation of the legal status of civil servants is reflected in a number of regulations, including the Labor Code of Ukraine, the Law of Ukraine "On Civil Service" as well as acts of sectoral legislation (eg Law of Ukraine "On the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine") and other acts sectoral legislation aimed at legal regulation of the legal status of civil servants.