Ukraine: new planned labor code soon on a second reading in Parliament

The Ukrainian Parliament should analyze a project for a new labor code on a second reading by the end of the year 2008. Alexander Poels, Director and lawyer at the Peterka & Partners firm in Kiev, underlines for Planet Labor the main novelties. (Ref. 080828)
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Necessary arrangements. To this day, employment relations in Ukraine were governed by the labor code adopted on December 10, 1971. After the dismantlement of the Soviet Union, Ukraine gave priority to principles of market economy, since the provisions of the labor code were not adjusted to the new era of free economy and foreign investments. Although amended more than 70 times since its adoption in 1971 (the last changes will come into force on January 1, 2009), this didn’t remove all the contr

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