Features of Legal Regulation of Distance Work

The changes that are taking place in the socio-economic sphere inevitably affect the development of labour relations, including the growth of atypical employment. Due to the development of new technologies, digitalization of the economy, as well as new ways to reduce costs in labour relations, it became obvious: labour relations in today's reality need to adapt quickly to new conditions, while maintaining the necessary guarantees for the parties of labour relations and creating new, more effective mechanisms of protection of labour rights. During the epidemiological situation of COVID-19, the use of atypical forms of employment, which include remote work, the main distinguishing feature of which is the performance of work functions outside the employer's location and control, and with the use of information and communication technologies, was particularly significant. All over the world, the number of remote workers has increased dramatically, which is caused by the need to develop flexible labour relations and expand the scope of remote labour application. Application of distant labour generates many difficulties in the organization of labour of employees, in registration and termination of labour relations with this category of workers, in the regulation of time and rest schedule. In addition, the mechanism of labour protection and protection of rights of distant workers is not completely regulated. In the course of the study the legal nature of distant work as one of the priority forms of labour relations in modern conditions was considered, and a number of conclusions were formulated, which could help improve the legal regulation of distant relations.