The article is devoted to study of the current trends in development of the labor rights in Ukraine, related to elaboration of the draft Labor Code of Ukraine which highlights the necessity to update the labor law and adapt it to the current level of development of labor relations, namely: it is pointed out the gradual extension of the limits of the subject of the legal regime of the labor law, inclusion of new relationships and subjects in its sphere of influence, it is proved that the subject of the specified regime should include relations of non-standard forms of employment, opportunities for broadening the scope of labor law that will also lead to a change in the subject of its regulation, which will be the use of labor of both dependent and independent workers, joint parties of different types of collective owners engaged in the labor and industrial process; the second trend highlights the necessity to introduce an electronic form of employment contract in order to develop the principle of freedom of work, After all, one of the fundamental institutes of labor law is the institute of employment contract, which is the basis for the emergence of labor relations between the employee and the employer. However, the forms of concluding such an agreement remain unchanged, which is contrary to the full reform and improvement of the said institute. Increasingly, social networks are discussing a progressive approach to maintaining an electronic form of employment contract, along with a written one, which may, in the future, gradually disappear into the past, which will become the next trend in the development of labor relations; outlines the current trends of the shift in the legislative activity of government bodies; the article notes the third trend in the development of labor rights in the world relating to increase of the level of their protection, which should be carried out by specially authorized bodies in the order of the specialized jurisdiction; it is investigated the issue of development of specialized labor courts, analyzed the tendencies of the formation of the Code of Labor Procedure, which should provide for a number of procedural guaranties of protection of the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of employees, employers and other subjects of employment relationship at law as well as guarantee of the legal equality of the parties in resolving discrepancies between them; the inferences on the actual formation of a new branch of procedural law are made.