Standardization of Employment Agreements: Limitation of Freedom of the Parties or Forced Unification?

The article analyzes such a way of limiting the freedom of employment contracts as their standardization. Examples of standard and exemplary forms of employment contracts are given. The importance of standardized employment contracts is revealed: provision of legal assistance to subjects of labor relations; formation of the terms of the employment contract, presumed in the Labor Code of the Russian Federation; unification of legal regulation of labor relations in certain areas of activity; reflection of the specifics of regulating labor relations of certain categories of workers, etc.