Annotation

The concept of public power enshrined in the Constitution of the Russian Federation requires for its implementation the coordinated activity of state and municipal power structures, which, in turn, should be based on unified approaches to the organisation of service activity in them. However, at present state and municipal service from the point of view of legal regulation are based on diametrically opposite approaches: state service — on service-legal; municipal service — on labour-legal. The article shows practical problems arising from the erroneous — in the opinion of the authors — approach, in the framework of which municipal servants are considered as employees who carry out their activities as a general rule on the basis of a labour contract and proposes to abandon its use.