Аннотация:The COVID-19 pandemic has had a serious impact on people's lives on a globalscale,and this impact is even more pronounced for the poor. The protection of labor rights during the pandemic has become a major challenge facing Russia directly related to people's livelihood and the country's economy. During the pandemic,the labor law proved to be the mostrapidly changing departmental law,and it faced such new problems as the promotion and implementation of social quarantine and sanitation measures,business shutdowns,and soaring economic costs for the state and commercial sectors. In terms of the state's “active obligation”to protect citizens' rights to life and health,Russia's way of protecting workers' rights to lifeand health through labor laws is worthy of attention and research