In the closing days of 2019, the Zelensky cabinet quietly passed along a new draft law to the country’s parliament. The draft bill – simply entitled ‘On Labor’ – contains 98 articles, and is intended to replace the country’s Labor Code, in use since its ratification by the Ukrainian SSR in the 1970s. The bill describes a nearly wholesale restructuring of the Ukrainian labor market, and in many cases, takes obvious inspiration from the labor practices of the United States of America.
Hromadske: Opposing labor reform, Ukraine’s unions speak out
People protest against the adoption of a new labor law next to the Verkhovna Rada building as the Ukrainian parliament reviews the draft bill on Jan. 15, 2020. Labor unions claim the new law – if passed – will deprive them of the rights to protect employees in Ukraine.
