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Job-rich recovery for women

Three Essential Questions: Interview with Réka Sáfrány, President of European Women's Lobby

This is the second issue of short interviews with important researchers and practitioners from Central and Eastern Europe on burning questions concerning labour and social policies. The interviewee this time is Réka Sáfrány, newly elected President...

ILO support for Trade Unions during the pandemic

ITUC Global Rights Index for 2021 shows that COVID-19 impacted workers’ rights in Central and Eastern Europe

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) has released its yearly Global Rights Index for 2021. The report shows that the COVID-19 pandemic led to an increase in violations of workers’ rights across the globe. In Europe, the most frequently...

Modernizing Vocational education

The future is “blended”: strengthening digital TVET in Ukraine

Like many countries around the globe, by the beginning of 2020 teachers in Ukraine were thrusted into a new reality. Education shifted to e-Learning almost overnight. Looking back, one major lesson from school closures is, that well-designed...

Maritime Labour Convention, 2006

Ukraine on the way to join ILO’s Seafarer’s Bill of Rights

Ukraine is among the top four countries supplying maritime workers on ships around the globe. Last week, the Ukrainian government made an important step towards ratifying the ILO flagship Convention guaranteeing minimum working standards for all...

Policy brief

Preventing and mitigating COVID-19 at work

The ILO and WHO publish a brief providing a literature review on common features of workplaces most affected by the new corona virus and the most effective measures adopted by countries to prevent and mitigate COVID-19 at work. The brief gives...

ILO/WHO partnership to protect health workers

Healthcare workers urgently need upgraded working conditions, safety and health protection against COVID-19 in Ukraine

Health workers are at the forefront of the global fight against the COVID-19. In Ukraine, however, they face serious challenges in occupational health and safety and working conditions. On 16 April 2021, the ILO and WHO jointly organized a webinar...

International Training Centre of the ILO

New challenges for TVET and skills development - what do you want to learn today?

The importance of learning new skills has never been as evident as in the last year. Almost overnight, all of the global workforce had to admit they faced challenges with their digital skills. We had to switch to new ways of managing work and doing...

Protecting human rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the context of HIV and sexual orientation in Ukraine

Asylum seekers and refugees are entitled to all the rights and fundamental freedoms spelled out in international human rights instruments. This includes the right to protection if they have HIV, TB or identify themselves as lesbian, gay, bisexual,...

Towards a comprehensive and resilient social security system

Social security and COVID-19: Which measures were effective in protecting workers?

The recent ILO report reviews the national social security measures in response to the COVID-19 crisis, analyses their effectiveness, and discusses future challenges in improving the social security systems. The report covers seven countries in the...

Working without a labour contract is like playing with fire

Kateryna (name changed), the editor of an oblast-level media site, will hardly receive the 30,000 hryvnias that her employer owes her. It’s all because she did not have a labour contract and received her wage “in the envelope”. Read Kateryna’s story...

Working as three but earning as one

Undeclared work is work without a labour contract when job tasks are increasingly added without any extra pay, when days-off and leaves are denied, and wages are paid “in the envelope”. Tetiana worked exactly on such terms when she came to Kyiv to...

Lifelong learning

Why Trade Unions should act on Skills Development – and how?

To build a ‘better normal’ in the post-COVID-19 world of work, skills development and lifelong learning need to be part of economic transformation. This responsibility should not reside with governments and companies alone. Trade Unions have an...

Everyday protection: how labour contract kept Rivne oblast worker’s job

More than 2 million Ukrainians lost their jobs or went on forced leave during the quarantine in 2020. Those who worked undeclared were hit most because only a labour contract guarantees worker protection against unlawful dismissal and provides...

Timely fixed mistake: how entrepreneur from Luhansk oblast avoided penalty for undeclared workers

When you start your own business, mistakes are unavoidable. What matters is timely fixing them! Within the State Labour Service's “Go to Light!” information campaign labour inspectors help employers to formalise employment relationships in a proper...

Reaching out to everyone: how labour inspectors are getting closer to employers

Labour inspection practices in Ukraine are becoming increasingly closer to the European model. Labour inspectors are raising awareness of employers and workers all over the country, as part of the State Labour Service's “Go to Light!” information...

Thinking about future: how Mariupol worker takes cares of her decent pension

The years fly by. Before you know it, it’s time to retire and to reap fruits of your work. However, it is now that it is worth taking care of what those fruits will be.

Disguised employment: how Mariupol employer mistakenly concluded civil law contracts instead of labour contracts

Some employers conclude civil law contracts with their employees, instead of labour contracts. However, it’s not the matter in which one can choose comfortable options.

The last straw: why worker from Lviv decided to “go to light”

A growing number of Ukrainians are getting tired of working undeclared: working overtime with no pay, having no vacations, and not having access to sick leave and other social guarantees. However, to move from words to actions, one needs to be given...

To explain and advise: how labour inspectors in Volyn oblast helped employer and worker to “go to light”

Declared work has a multitude of benefits for both employers and workers, but not all people are aware of them.

Decent Work Country Programme

Ukraine and ILO sign new cooperation agreement to pave the way for delivery on decent work

In the next four years, ILO’s support to Ukraine will center around employment creation, extension of social protection, securing rights at work, and promotion of social dialogue. The assistance to be provided by ILO ranges from consolidating the...