Kyiv Employment Alert

According to the requirements of an article of the Labour Code of Ukraine (the "Labour Code"), commencing from 1 January 2015 an employee cannot be permitted to a work place without having entered into an employment arrangement in the form of a hiring order or decision. Further, an employer is obliged to file a notice on newly hired employees to the governmental authorities administrating the singly social tax; the procedure for filing such a notice is to be approved by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.

On 27 June 2015 the newspaper "Uriyadovyi Kurier" published Resolution no. 413 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On the Procedure for Filing a Notice to the State Fiscal Service and its Territorial Bodies on Hiring an Employee" dated 17 June 2015 (the "Resolution"). Thus, commencing from 27 June 2015, an employer is required to notify a local body of the State Fiscal Service on hired employee(s), according to the form stipulated by the Resolution.