![]() ![]() ![]() In other words, the employee had to personally negotiate all the specifics of their employment directly with the employer. ![]() This law established a separate regime to regulate labour relations in these enterprises, where an individual employment contract was defined as the main document regulating labour relations. In addition, in summer 2022, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law substantially reducing the labour rights of those working for small and medium-sized enterprises (up to 250 employees). Labour law was created precisely for the collective protection of workers because it is impossible to effectively negotiate all employment terms and conditions with massive corporations and the like. Employment relations began to be suspended for no reason at all, even in companies of strategic importance for the defence of Ukraine.Īnother scandalous legal provision was the law ‘On Amending Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Optimisation of Employment Relations’, adopted in July 2022, which released employers from the obligation to pay an average salary to employees mobilised for the defence of their country. Such laws became the unpleasant reality for hundreds and thousands of people, actively fighting for democratic change in their workplaces. By allowing employers to unilaterally cancel the provisions of collective agreements without justification this law destroyed the foundations of trade union work. According to this concept, employees are not formally dismissed, but in reality, no longer work for or receive a salary from their company. In particular, the proposed ‘suspension’ of the employment contract. However, it did include several provisions which fundamentally undermined the labour rights of those who had been working at the frontlines since the start of the invasion. This law, in fact, contained very few provisions conducive to strengthening the defence capabilities of the state during a war. In March, at the very start of the war, the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) passed a new law ‘On the Organisation of Labour Relations During Martial Law’, which unfortunately meant that certain extreme forms of liberalisation of labour rights became a legal reality. Systematically undermining worker’s right For entirely logical reasons, practices employed before the onset of the war - such as strikes and peaceful assembly - are now prohibited. Nobody in their right mind would insist on the same working conditions as before the war and the full rights and guarantees they were entitled to up till then. This is, unfortunately, one of the dominant narratives of the present day, unabated in recent years.Ĭlearly, after 24 February 2022, the labour sector could not remain in its former state and had to change and undergo reforms. Along with Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022, Ukrainians are facing another threat: since March we have also experienced a full-scale attack on the labour rights of all working people in Ukraine. We, Ukrainians, are all living in a state of war. ![]()
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