It will be even easier to lose a job: what new reasons for dismissal may appear in Ukraine

Ukrainian people’s deputies have registered bill No. 7251, which proposes to change the legislation on labor relations. In particular, they propose to expand the list of reasons for dismissal of employees.

“Today” will tell you exactly what reasons for dismissal are offered in the document.

What can change

So, the authors of the bill write that its main goal is to regulate relations between workers and employers during the war. Many changes are proposed, one of them suggests that during a state of war or a state of emergency, all messages and documents on labor relations can be kept in electronic form.

In addition, the list of reasons for dismissal is proposed to be expanded. The first of the new grounds is the inability to provide the worker with working conditions during the war.

“Due to the active hostilities on the territory of Ukraine and the destruction of the property of enterprises, institutions, organizations, the further conduct of their activities often becomes impossible. The bill proposes the introduction of an additional reason for the dismissal of an employee – the inability to provide the employee with working conditions, due to the fact that the necessary conditions for the performance of work by the specified employee, the production, organizational, technical capacities, means of production or property of the owner or the body authorized by him were destroyed as a result of hostilities, and a special procedure for the dismissal of such employees is introduced,” the bill says.

The second ground for dismissal that is offered is – absence of an employee at work and information about the reasons for such absence for more than four months.

The third reason is in connection with the death of an individual employer or an individual employee.

What the experts say

The partner of the legal company ExpatPro, Tatyana Yashchenko, commented on such changes to the UBR publication as closing gaps in the legislation. And, for example, the rule on dismissal due to the absence of an employee at work and information about the reasons for such absence for more than four months is generally inappropriate.

“In my opinion, a somewhat inappropriate and half-dead norm, in fact. Why wait 4 months to fire an employee if there is a provision for dismissal of an employee due to absenteeism? Yes, documenting the dismissal of an employee based on absenteeism is a rather difficult task, but hardly many employers will wait 4 months when zeros will be displayed in the timesheet and there will be no payroll,” Yashchenko said.

Cash assistance for unemployment during the war in Ukraine

Earlier, Segodnya was told that unemployment benefits are provided to citizens of Ukraine who have received the status of unemployed and are appointed by employment centers from the eighth day after the registration of the unemployed on his personal application.

The amount of assistance is determined depending on the insurance period and wages that a person received before. If there is no such data, then the amount is determined on the basis of certificates of wages (monetary security, remuneration under a civil law contract) that the employer issued to the person, the military commissariat where the person was registered, or the military unit where the person served.

Such assistance paid at least twice a month. It is also possible to pay 1 payment per monthif the unemployed person agrees to it.

Who is eligible for unemployment status and how to apply, read the material.

We also wrote about what has changed in Ukrainian labor relations during the period of martial law, and who in Ukraine can use preferential lending terms.