New Labour Code Of Ukraine Is To Be Adopted Shortly

Article by Olexander Martinenko, Tetyana Rabczak and Nataliya Nakonechna

The Parliament of Ukraine is expected to consider and vote for the new Draft Labour Code at the next Parliamentary session. The Draft Labour Code prepared for the second reading is aimed at bringing more clarity into labour legislation and replacing the outdated post-soviet Labour Code of 1971 that is currently in force.

Most of the provisions of the proposed Draft Labour Code incorporate the existing framework of labour regulations and market practice, giving mandatory force to some of the provisions that were previously stipulated by various outdated soviet regulations of the 1980s and recommendations of governmental institutions, which had no mandatory force.