Joint work of persons working under an employment contract implies the creation of a certain legal order, in terms of which labor duties must be fulfilled.
The internal labor schedule is the rule of law in the field of labor, acting in a particular employer . Its main task is to regulate the behavior of all team members, to subordinate their actions to a single goal of the labor process, taking into account the conditions of production and the specific organization of labor of a particular employer. Compliance with the internal labor regulations provides coordination in the relationship between employees and the employer, as well as between the employees themselves. Internal work schedule is the basis of labor discipline .
The internal labor regulations are a local regulatory act that regulates, in accordance with the Labor Code of the Russian Federation and other federal laws, the procedure for hiring and dismissing employees, basic rights, duties and responsibilities of the parties to an employment contract, work schedule, rest time, incentives and penalties applied to employees, and there are also other issues related to the regulation of labor relations with this employer, in particular the issues of payment of wages and others.
The internal labor regulations are approved by the employer, taking into account the views of the representative body of employees in the manner prescribed by article 372 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation for the adoption of local regulations. The rules of internal labor regulations, as a rule, are annexed to the collective agreement.
The subordination of an employee to the rules of internal labor regulations - one of the main features of the employment contract. The definition of the concept of a labor contract contained in Article 56 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation emphasizes that the employee undertakes to comply with the rules of internal labor regulations in force with the given employer.