On 12 May 2022, Ukrainian Parliament adopted the Law of Ukraine "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Strengthening Protection of Rights of Employees" (the "Law"), which addresses aspects of protection against discrimination in employment, collective bargaining agreements and collective redundancies. The Law became effective on 27 May 2022.

Protection against discrimination

• Actions and limitation of rights of employees related to specific requirements (regarding age, education, health conditions, gender) for particular type of work or due to necessity of enhanced protection of certain individuals are not considered as discrimination in labour.
• Bylaws of commercial entities may provide for priority for its owners and members in relation to provision of work, job transfers and retaining of employment.

Guarantees when concluding an employment agreement

• The Law provides for a definition of the ''unreasonable refusal in employment'', which is a refusal with no motives or based on the grounds that are not related to qualification or competencies of an employee or do not stem from law.
• As per request of a rejected job applicant, an employer must inform such individual of the justifiable reasons of refusal in writing.

Entering into and validity of collective bargaining agreement (''CBA")

• The Law allows concluding CBAs also with a private entrepreneur that has employees and with an authorized representative of an employer, e.g. representatives of a...

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