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Federal law No 123-FZ¹ sets a legal framework in Moscow for the development and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The experimental legal framework is established for five years starting from 1 July 2020.

The law sets out goals, objectives, and main principles of establishing the experimental legal framework and regulates relations arising therein. The main objective of the experiment – examine how the AI technologies work, which sectors of the economy and social relations require its` implementation. After the experiment, decision on further amendments to the legislation will be made.

On April 9, 2020, the Government approved the “Temporary rules for registering citizens to find suitable work and registering as unemployed, as well as for making social payments to citizens who are recognized as unemployed under the established procedure” (“Rules”). In addition to the procedure for registering citizens as unemployed, the Rules, among other things, establish the employers’ obligation to submit information to the  Russian Pension Fund in cases of hiring and firing a citizen no later than 1 business day following the day of issuing the relevant order (decision), as well as other decisions or documents confirming the execution of employment relations (clause 6 of the Rules).

On February 04, 2020, the Russian Constitutional Court recognized¹ clause 2 of article 67 of the Russian Labour Code (employer’s obligation to issue an employment contract within 3 business days from the date of the employee’s actual work authorization or the date of the court’s recognition of civil relations as labor ones) and paragraph 1 of clause 8 of article 13 of the Federal law No. 115-FZ “On the legal status of foreign citizens in the Russian Federation” (obligation of an employer or customer to notify regarding the conclusion or termination (cancellation) of the labor or civil contract with a foreign citizen within 3 business days from the date of concluding or termination (cancellation) of the relevant contract) as constitutionally acceptable.