Abstract: The research subject is the peculiarities of employment of government and municipal employees upon retirement. The authors analyze the legislative restrictions imposed on former government and municipal employees willing to enter a labor or commercial contract. The authors reveal the topical problems connected with the approval of a special commission responsible for the supervision over the observance of the requirements to the code of conduct of government employees and conflict of interest management. The research method is the theoretical analysis of statutory documents of the Russian Federation regulating the procedure of employment of former government and municipal employees. The authors conclude that the current legislation contains contradictions relating the obligation of former government and municipal employees to obtain approval of the commission supervising over the observance of the requirements to the code of conduct of federal government employees and conflict of interest management. The contradiction is connected with the obligation of a former government or municipal employee to obtain approval of this commission before official employment; it is significant impairment of labor rights of former government employees as compared with other applicants.