Due to the spread of COVID-19 the Russian Ministry of Labor and
Social Protection and the Mayor of Moscow recommended all employers
to switch to home office work where it is possible.
Furthermore, based on the recent order of the Mayor of Moscow
persons aged over 65 shall stay at home while the employers shall
support them in self-isolation; upon their consent these persons
are to be transferred to a home office or shall be provided with
paid vacation.
Unfortunately, the Russian employment law is not flexible enough
and currently does not provide for legally safe options of
mandatory transfer of employees to a home office or transformation
of a regular employment agreement into a distant work employment
agreement.
