Working hours standards: continuity and novelty

The article examines the issues of the relationship between successive standards that allow for stable legal regulation and new standards that drive dynamics in labor law. The article examines the relationship and interdependence of standards on the duration of working hours and standards on their distribution. As a result of a comparative analysis of successive and new standards on the duration and mode of working hours, the prospects for their development are shown. Individual elements of inconsistency in the content and design of standards on types and modes of working hours are identified, as well as legal inaccuracies made during the last codification, in order to eliminate which it is proposed to introduce new articles into Section IV “Working Hours” of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.