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On 24 March 2025, the State Duma adopted, at the third reading, Draft Law No. 1097621-8 (the “Draft Law”), which prohibits employers from imposing a probationary period on women with children under the age of three.

On August 11, 2025, amendments to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the "LC of the RF") entered into force. These amendments concern the provision of guarantees to part-time employees upon termination of an employment contract with them at their primary place of work due to the liquidation of the organization or redundancy or staff cuts at the organization.

On November 14, 2024 the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation has published Resolution No. 52-P on the case of verifying the constitutionality of paragraph 1 of Article 308.3 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation, part 3 of Article 206 of the Civil Procedural Code of the Russian Federation and Article 419 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation in connection with the complaint of Mr. S.S. Shapka.

On 9 November 2024 the Federal Law No. 381-FZ “On Amendments to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation” was published. Amendments introduce Article 351⁸ to the chapter regulating the work of other categories of employees (hereinafter referred to as the “Article”). The Article regulates the mentoring in labor relations. The regulation will enter into force on 1 March 2025.

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On 19 December 2023 the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation issued Resolution № 59-P/2023 “On the Case Concerning the Verification of the Constitutionality of Paragraph Eight of Part Two of Article 59 of the Labour Code of the Russian Federation in Connection with the Complaint of Citizen E. A. Selkova” (hereinafter - the “Resolution”).

From September 01, 2023, changes in the procedure for conducting medical examinations before, during and after a workday (shift) come into force. Namely, starting from September, employers will be granted the right to conduct such examinations remotely – using medical devices that provide automated remote transmission of information about the health status of employees and remote monitoring of their health status.

Starting from November 19, 2022, the list of exceptional grounds for conducting an unscheduled audit of the company in 2022 will be expanded. It will also include cases of large-scale non-payment of salaries to employees for more than one month.

Starting from November 4, 2022, a new ground for employment termination has been added to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation – the employer's conscription for military service on mobilization. This ground is included in Article 83 of the Labor Code, which provides for cases of termination of an employment contract by reason of circumstances which are beyond the parties' control.