Legal aspects of employee training: current state and development prospects

The article pays special attention to such types of employee training as an apprenticeship contract, additional vocational education, mentoring, and labor protection training. The analysis of the training regulations showed that, firstly, the legal basis for almost all types of training is the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and other regulatory legal acts containing labor law norms, but a special feature is the possibility of regulating the training process at a specific employer by local regulatory acts, fi lling in the gaps in the legislation. Secondly, the authors distinguish between mandatory and optional training based on the principle that any training of employees is carried out on a voluntary basis, unless otherwise provided by regulatory legal acts. Thirdly, the authors prove the comprehensive nature of training, focused on a combination of theoretical knowledge and the acquisition of practical skills by employees. Further prospects for improving the employee training process are highlighted, in particular, the importance of detailing the rules on employee training in one chapter of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation not only for the purpose of systematizing training, but also to enhance the importance of this factor in the activities of the employer and in the process of the employee’s work.