Том 10, № 3 (2023)

The article is devoted to the analysis of the experience of self-employment legal regulation in foreign countries such as USA, Canada, Japan, China, France, Germany and Great Britain. The relevance of studying this experience is due to the active development of the self-employment segment in the Russian labor market against the background of the digitalization, the shortage of decent jobs in the corporate sector in a number of regions, the attractiveness for citizens of the professional income tax. The authors of the article explore international and national approaches to determining the legal status of the self-employed. The peculiarities of regulating the relationship of the self-employed as dependent or independent contractors with employers are revealed. The features of providing the self-employed with basic and additional social guarantees are established. The results of the study can be used in the preparation of proposals for amendments and additions to the Russian legislation in the field of regulation of self-employment.

The article is devoted to the problem of forecasting the growth of regional labor productivity. To study labor productivity in the regions of Russia, the methods of factor and regression analysis were used. Based on the proposed multivariate regression model and logistic regression model, the share of Russian regions where labor productivity will increase with a probability of more than 95% is estimated. This made it possible to identify regions as points of growth of regional labor productivity. In terms of labor productivity growth, problematic regions have also been identified. The proposed results can be used by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia to justify the effectiveness of regional development.

The article considers problems related to the replacement of special social payments for providing medical care to patients with COVID-19 coronavirus infection with compensatory payments.The evolution of payments to medical staff for COVID-19 treatment and other social support measures is considered. Causes and consequences of suspension of special social payments were revealed. The order of realization of compensatory payments was analyzed. The problems of financial provision of a new type of payments were established. The measures to be taken by health care institutions are highlighted.The actual status of the new compensatory payments in terms of attributing them to payments for hazardous working conditions is ambiguous, because the authorized executive authorities allow the treatment of COVID-19 to work part-time. From the point of view of the provisions of the Labor Code, this is inadmissible. This demonstrates the need to improve the regulatory framework of payments to medical staff for the risks associated with the treatment of COVID-19.

The process of digital transformation of the Russian economy requires industrial companies to introduce new information technologies that allow increasing the labor productivity and, consequently, the companies' efficiency.The research purpose was to substantiate a new approach and a system of criteria for classifying personal protective equipment as innovative and high–tech amidst digital transformation.The authors analyzed the elements and suggested forecast of the digital transformation of an industrial company. The authors justified the importance of innovative personal protective equipment, defined the requirements and developed a system of criteria for assigning personal protective equipment to innovative and high-tech. The conceptual and categorical apparatus in the digital environment is developed. New definitions, which makes it possible to justify the classification of personal protective equipment in the digital environment, are proposed.Criteria for high-tech personal protective equipment against heavy pollution and increased mechanical loads, toxic and aggressive substances, as well as extreme conditions should be included in the occupational risk management system in order to improve the industrial production safety.The results of the study may be useful to representatives of public authorities, specialists of the labor protection system, as well as experts solving problems of improving the efficiency of the occupational health system management.