All news: Ukraine

International Migrants' Day

Face to face with migration in Ukraine

With its coronavirus crisis, the year 2020 made us look differently at migration at personal, state and community levels. The border closures equalized those who used to flying business class and those who borrowed money for a bus ticket to go...

ILO partnership

Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights and the ILO: partners in promoting rights at work

Liudmyla Denisova, Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights signed a memorandum of understanding with the ILO represented by Heinz Koller, Assistant Director General and Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia on 8 December, 2020 to...

Global Compact on Migration

UNECE region reviews Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

International Labour Standards

Ukraine on its way to reform 50-year-old Labour Law

Ukraine is currently making a new attempt to revise the outdated labour law. The UN in Ukraine, supported by the ILO, published last month a Position Paper on the ongoing Labour Law reform which was presented to Government and social partners in an...

Rapid assessments of the EBMOs in Western Balkans and Ukraine reveal the challenges and needs faced by enterprises in navigating and...

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures have caused significant losses and disruptions to enterprises in Western Balkans and Ukraine. To collect evidence on how the pandemic is impacting enterprises’ operations and...

COVID-19 and the World of work

Health and safety at work in the COVID-19 pandemic: A key to reviving the labour market and the economy

The ILO has been supporting its constituents in the region since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure health and safety at the workplace. Without the protection of workers, the recovery of the economy cannot be possible.

Maternity protection and pay equity

Ukraine commits to achieve gender equality and joins Biarritz Partnership with ILO support

The Biarritz Partnership is an international initiative for equal rights and opportunities for all. It was created to strengthen the responsibility of the G7 countries and to consolidate efforts of other countries in gender equality. The ILO...

International Labour Rights

ITUC Global Rights Index 2020 shows workers’ rights violations occur too often in Central and Eastern Europe

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) released its yearly Global Rights Index in June 2020. This year, the report affirms that the violations of workers’ rights is increasing globally, and is the highest in seven years. For Central and...

COVID-19 and the World of Work

COVID-19 rapid assessment: Federation of Employers of Ukraine releases business impacts and responses

The Federation of Employers of Ukraine (FEU), the largest and most representative employer organization in the country, conducted a survey between 10 and 27 April, 2020 to scan the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic among its member enterprises. 121...

A network and online platform of labour law

Introducing CEELex, the labour legislation database for Central and Eastern Europe

The ILO recently launched CEELex which is the only searchable, English-language online database offering information on the national labour laws in Central and Eastern Europe. Established in 2015 to respond to an increasing demand of policy makers...

Fighting undeclared work

Information campaign of Ukrainian labour inspectors brings 123,000 workers into formal employment in one month

Labour inspectors from the State Labour Service of Ukraine visited more than 184,000 employers in the trade, hotel and restaurant sector between 21 and 30 January, 2020, to inform them about the risks of undeclared work. The news about these visits...

Start and Improve Your Business

Ukraine grants loans to entrepreneurs and opts for ILO business training package

On February 3, 2020 Ukraine launched a state programme to give affordable loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The 80 Mio USD scheme is designed to enable the creation and expansion of small businesses, and includes a training module. To...

The Ukrainian pension system at crossroads: Key policy messages from the recent ILO report

In 2017, the Ukrainian Government adopted a pension reform that increased the level of pensions in payment but severely restricted future pensions. After three years’ implementation of the reform, it is time to assess the impact of the changes and...

HIV/AIDS at the workplace

Take an HIV test and keep sailing! ILO promotes HIV/AIDS awareness among seafarers

Ukraine remains among the European countries most affected by HIV and AIDS. Every day, fifty people get infected and ten die from AIDS. The epidemic is driven by key populations: partly by people who inject drugs, but the prevailing cause has been...

Unions in Ukraine join the campaign to end violence and harassment at work

Trade unions in Ukraine have shown strong committment to ending violence and harassment in the world of work.

VCT@WORK in Ukraine’s Maritime Sector

According to estimates, 30 per cent of people living with HIV in Ukraine don’t know their HIV positive status. HIV testing is free and available in AIDS centres, and in many primary medical healthcare centres, as a result of the current health care...

NIS economic experts meeting

The PERC and the ILO-ACTRAV organized on 6-7 November in Tbilisi an annual meeting of the trade union economic experts from the NIS countries. The meeting continues cooperation of trade union professional experts as a part of the PERC coordinated...

Trade unions

ITUC wage campaign steps up efforts to increase wages in the Balkans

In 2017, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) launched a global wage campaign to support trade union action to increase wages. Most of the activities had taken place in Asia, Latin America and Africa so far. In July 2019, ITUC extended...

Occupational safety and health

ILO helps expand mine safety training in the Donetsk region of Ukraine

Promoting Core labour standards and Social Dialogue by effective implementation of the EU Association Agendas in Georgia, Moldova and...

Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine are active participants of the EU’s Eastern Partnership programme and have Association Agreements with the EU.