The review contains presentations of the participants of the scientific and practical conference "The Future of the labor sphere in Russia: legal initiatives", held on March 23, 2018 at the Institute of the State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The focus of the conference participants was both theoretical and practical issues concerning the future of the workplace – the initiative launched in 2013 at the International labour conference in commemoration of the centenary of the ILO in 2019. They discussed such problems as the implementation by Russia – a member of the ILO obligations in connection with the adoption in 1998 of the ILO Declaration on fundamental principles and rights at work and the mechanism for its implementation. The issues of development of Russian Labor Law in the future, prospects and main directions of improvement of its norms, legislative initiatives in the sphere of labor were considered.