Review

The article is devoted to the theoretical and legal study of civilian employees and the normative and legal regulation of their labor relations with the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations. The need to conduct such a study is due to the fact that the issues of the legal status of civilian personnel of a military formation and legal regulation of labor relations of employees with military units, institutions, organizations and establishments in Ukraine were almost not studied. In view of this, the involvement of civilian employees in labor relations with military formations occurs in conditions of uncertainty of their legal status, which may lead to unjustified restriction or non-observance of their individual rights and legitimate interests. The purpose of the article is to clarify the legal status of civilian employees working in military formations and the current state of regulatory and legal regulation of such labor relations. When conduction scientific research, methods of its implementation were used, chosen taking into account the defined purpose and subject of the research. They are based on the dialectical method of systematic knowledge of actually existing phenomena and processes, as well as theoretical-logical, empirical and special legal methods, which are means of scientific research in the arsenal of legal sciences, which were used in interconnection and interdependence, which ensured comprehensiveness, completeness and objectivity of the conducted research. As a result of the conducted research, it was proposed to introduce to the scientific circulation a formulated definition of the legal status of a civilian employee of a military formation, the current state of the legal regulation of such labor relations was identified and proposals were made for improving certain provisions of labor legislation that relate to research issues