Аннотация:Introduction: the article examines the paradigms of labor law and social security law at the present stage.Purpose: to identify the features of the modern paradigms of Russian labor law and social security law, to determine the conditions that contributed to their development.Methods: the methodological framework of the research is based on the universal, general scientific methods, as well as some special methods (system-structural, formal-legal, comparative-legal, historical ones).Results: based on the scientific understanding of the paradigm, the authors conclude that the concept of paradigm is applicable in law.At the same time, there are a number of features characteristic of the legal paradigm: the major role of external factors in the crisis of a legal paradigm; the possibility of the existence of a paradigm of law in general and paradigms of different branches; the factor of "time lag", historical context, multiparadigmality.Based on the analysis of the existing points of view and definitions, the authors define the paradigm of labor law as a system of fundamental concepts, laws, principles, values reflecting the essence of Russian labor law at a certain historical stage, which manifests itself in its tasks, functions, specific features of the subject and method, principles, sources, as well as in the legal consciousness and law enforcement.The factors that influenced the development of the paradigms of labor law and social security law are considered.The authors suggest that the modern paradigm
