The American “You’re fired” is sometimes shouted in Ukrainian. A recent scandal with the dismissal of an employee of Khlibniy, a popular Kyiv coffee shop chain, once again demonstrated how vulnerable are the employees that work informally or in the traditional for the Ukrainian economy model, where staff register as individual entrepreneurs (a.k.a. FOPs) and carry out work through ‘civic contracts’.
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People cross Khreshchatyk Street in downtown Kyiv on May 10, 2021.
