The Verkhovna Rada has adopted as a basis draft law No. 7251, which aims to optimise labour relations under martial law.
Among other things, the following changes are planned for labour relations:
Goodbye to paperwork: for the duration of martial law, electronic document flow between the employee and the employer is introduced.
Additional grounds for dismissal include the inability to provide the employee with working conditions due to the fact that the resources necessary for the performance of work have been destroyed as a result of hostilities. As well as the employee's absence from work and information about the reasons for such absence for more than four months. This means that you may be fired if you are absent from work and do not report the reason.
Certain restrictions on employees engaging in other paid or entrepreneurial activities during martial law are cancelled. This is now permitted for internally displaced persons.
Employers who suspended an employment contract before this law came into force are obliged to submit this decision for approval to the military administration (if it is established).
But the document is not without risks. In particular:
Conflict of interest: officials will be able to avoid sharp corners and use their positions for personal gain
There may be a situation when a person receives the status of an internally displaced person and continues to work remotely for a state or local government body, but will additionally engage in other paid activities using his or her official status. And here is a whole field for abuse of office and obtaining ‘additional income’
The draft law proposes to reduce the period of additional paid leave from 14 to 7 days for combatants, injured participants of the Revolution of Dignity, and persons with disabilities as a result of the war. All this will lead to a large number of court disputes
TheInstitute of Legislative Ideas does not recommend adopting this draft law in the second reading without significant revision.
Read more in our conclusion.