Social and Legal Aspects of Mentoring: History and Modernity

The article discusses issues of legal regulation of mentoring in the world of work. The author talks about the history of the issue of legal regulation of mentoring in labor. The article also examines today’s legal regulation of mentoring and offers the author’s definitions of this concept. The author considers the issue of mentoring in connection with the concept of “young worker”. The work notes the ambiguity and diversity of the institution of mentoring, and raises the question of the need to consolidate this legal concept in the current legislation. The article pays attention to the concept of mentoring not only in the Russian Federation, but also in some BRICS countries.